"Isn't there anything in the Code about your mate?"
"I've never had anything to take care of," he snarled. "You're weak and foolish and Gods, if I could find a magic pill that'd knock some sense into you --"
"I have a great deal of sense! What you fail to realize is that --whatever I am --I draw good and evil to me. Nothing corrupts someone like the temptation of invincibility."
"It was one of Kris's warriors," he said, his voice lowering into another feral growl. "I knew when Gabriel summoned me to you and went to Kris."
"I didn't tell him. He went through my memories," she said with a note of anger.
She felt him turn thoughtful.
"No, Rhyn. Have some respect for my mental privacy!"
He snorted and pulled her down into his arms again. Resistance was fruitless. She allowed him to wrap his arms and one heavy thigh around her body.
"What's Kris supposed to do to someone who broke the part of the Code about someone else's mate?" she asked quietly.
"Don't care."
"What?"
"Don't care what Kris does. I'll kill whoever it is."
Her heart slowed. She didn't like Kris, but he did what he did for some greater cause than himself. He wasn't a bad man, just a misguided one.
"Is this Code written down anywhere?"
"Nope."
"Can you tell me what it says?" she prodded.
"Nope."
"Rhyn, I --"
"Shut up and sleep. Nothing else bad will happen to you."
She fell silent. Her body was still exhausted from Kris's attack and a day spent with Hannah and her friends. Though she fought sleep, it started to claim her anyway.
"Rhyn?"
"What."
"I think I love you."
"What?"
"I'm smarter than you, too."