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" You're a charmer, aren't you, Talon?
Oh, he liked the way she said his name. She almost murmured the word, and for the first time in a long time, he wanted to kiss a woman only to shock her. Or maybe to shock himself, he didn't know. Rose did something weird with his insides. She was like one of those heart defibrillators that bring a man back to life. He had been a bloody corpse for years, and here he was, looking at this woman and taking his first breaths in the land of the living. "
― T.S. Joyce , Tarian Silver Lion (New Tarian Pride, #2)