He decided that he’d gone too easy on her. He approached the house and noted that the little had changed in the woman’s response to his projection.... There was still a need, a barely concealed hunger, overlaid with frustration. He observed her from the door of her home office. The light of the screen played on the attractive geometry of her face. Her intelligent blue eyes betrayed tiredness and the firm set of her full lips indicated something else entirely — anger tempered by grief. . ‘And we know you were there the night she got raped.’ Poppy let her words drop like a ton of bricks. They thought he had raped her? ‘She made you angry, so you raped her.’ ‘You don’t believe that, do you?’ he asked, staring intently at Melanie. Melanie opened her mouth like she was about to say something, but then closed it again. God, all this time he thought she was just scared, trying to cope. He didn’t know she was just scared of him. Logan cursed himself for the most pathetic fool to ever. When they needed sex they would arrange it, apparently able to find willing and suitable men easily enough. And that, I concluded, was where I came in. There would be no need for me to dress this situation up. Sybil and her talking thighs had communicated with me hours ago.She respected herself and didn’t consider herself “easy” because it was her decision: it was when she chose and in this case where she chose, in the safety of her own home.We sat together on the settee and she leaned against. The mirror was also a barrier to physical items, but it would not stop spells, so it was only of marginal protection.Sue projected her mirror out the door and recoiled, instinctively. Just beyond the door at either side was a great number of the succubi waiting to ambush the two heroes as they came through the door. Sue threw up the safety shield to the right of the doorway, completely blocking that group of succubi from attacking them while they were eliminating the ones on the left.Sue.