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“Enough! Jasmine, stop making trouble; Mathin, behave,” Jayems ordered. “You don’t have to worry about any of us making use of the information, Jackson. Yesande is the only one who would desire an army of lust crazed fools.”

Mathin glowered at him and slid his gaze back to Leo.

Unnerved, her eyes flickered away and settled with determination on her brother. “Do you have a better way to end this, brother? Who will it be next time, your wife, our little sister?”

“Uh, Leo,” Jasmine interrupted. “Just so you know, you’re letting yourself in for a pack of trouble with this charmer thing. I do hope you can turn it off as easily as you turned it on, otherwise it might be best to consider other options.”

Jackson tensed, and Leo bit her lip. “I’ll be all right for a while. The symbiont won’t work the pheromone into my genetic makeup for at least a month.”