But I'd never cared to get to know one, let alone allow one to follow me around, drawing my neighbors' suspicions that I was a seductress.

Until the day I pulled him from the water.

I found him drowned and alone, and I breathed life into him before I knew his name.

But the moment Kye opened his golden-brown eyes, I fell under a spell I couldn't escape-until I found myself trapped under his knife.

He betrayed me to my enemies, this man who owes me his life. And I hate him.

To him, it's a game of power. But to me, it's freedom or captivity.

With every dark gaze, every whispered threat, I find myself drawn to him against my will. But I refuse to fall for him a second time.

He'll have to kill me first.