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Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live. Did she? Charles looked at her, and she saw the approval in his face. She doubted anyone else would have read anything at all. His voice was a caress, just for her. Would you like that, love?

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Would
Face
Hunt
Love
Faces
Charles
Read
Hunts
Like
Voice
Approval
Woman
Tells
Else
Looked
Marrow
Anything
Saws
Caress
Live
Anyone
Doubted

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