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“She shut her eyes tightly and tried to think about home, about the fact that she’d be seeing her mother and walking on the warm, sandy Florida beaches very soon now.
But the images filling her mind were too disturbing.
Lauren wrapped her arms around herself protectively. God, the things Xairn had told her had been awful!
And he’d spoken so dispassionately. His voice was utterly flat as he described the atrocities his race perpetrated against women.
Clearly females were nothing more than property to them—to be won in barbaric contests and then marked like cattle.
But though his voice had been flat as he talked, his eyes had been burning. The way he’d looked at her when he spoke made it clear that each word hurt coming out. He didn’t want to tell me. Didn’t want me to think he was a monster.
Lauren sat up in bed and ran a hand through her long black hair. It felt rough and tangled and she wished for a hot bath and a hairbrush. He’s not a monster, she told herself forcefully.
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