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Tory ground her teeth at the indignity of her stance Her hands were chained over her head to a board Her legs had a degree more freedom, but they too were chained into a wide stance and she hated it It was so degrading to be held like this and to not be able to get free She couldn&039;t even scratch the itch on her nose and it was ave her an understanding of Acheron that made her want to kill over the way he&039;d been treated How ely beaten while those around him cheered and jeered? Or worse, took sexual pleasure froradation?

Today they finally carried out Acheron&039;s castration for a crime I know he&039;d never commit I can still hear his screams of unbearable pain His cries for mercy and for death The way he sobbed like I&039;d never heard him cry before I don&039;t think he kno the sound of his h the halls How those screams scarred my soul And I doubt if I will ever be able to silence them from my heart

Ryssa&039;s words spoke to her Now she fully understood what Ash had endured as a hu A pawn to his enemies A pawn to the brutal ard for his life or feelings Assaulted, betrayed and abused It was a wonder the man was even sane That he wasn&039;t as merciless and callous toward the world that had been that way to him The fact that he could find even ato let these assholes use her to hurt hie and determination, she pulled at the chains on her hands as hard as she could

Laughter rang out "Youto do is hurt yourself Even if you get free, you&039;ll never survive the Daimons and demons who&039;ll eat you the minute you leave this roo a few feet froundy color this tiod people that they constantly played with their hair?

She narrowed her gaze on Satara "You know, my whole life I&039;ve taken pride in the fact that I&039;m Greek But I have to say that after you and Artee Is it congenital or is there so else that has made you such a bitch?"

Satara hissed at her like a cat who&039;d just had its tail crushed "Don&039;t insult me, human I&039;h now that I think about it, a little ruffling of your feathers "

Maybe that should scare her, but for some reason she couldn&039;t fathom, it didn&039;t "Seriously, why do you want to kill your aunt so badly?"

Satara scoffed "You serve her spoiled rotten ass for eleven thousand years and let&039;s see to what extreo to free yourself I offered a deal to Acheron centuries ago to free us both and the bastard refused He deserves the hell she gives him and then some But I don&039;t Unlike hily to her I was forced into this and one way or another, I&039;et free"

"And when Ash co off Tory&039;s words "He won&039;t come here, sweetie He can&039;t You&039;re in the Atlantean hell realm If your lover sets one foot down here after you, his oes free and the world ends He thinks too much of humanity to let that happen So you are mine for a bit And personally, I think we should have so her head, she studied him like a small child "What&039;s the matter, akri? You look very sad"

He didn&039;t answer her question since it wouldhe wanted "I&039;"

"What are you doing?"

Going to commit suicide most likely, but that didn&039;t matter Only Tory&039;s welfare did However if he was to enter a fight, which he was about to, Simi would come off his body to battle by his side and he couldn&039;t let her be hurt because of hi where you can&039;t"

She wrinkled her nose in distaste "You going to see that heifer, aren&039;t you? Fine The Si and puffing or anything else that turns a demon&039;s stomach Akri, have you any idea what it&039;s like to be sick as a tattoo? It&039;s not fun, believe your Simi when she tells you that"

He shook his head at her, amazed that she could make him smile while he felt so bad "I believe you, Siel, Kyle and the rest of the bears were having a po of some sort Some custoto leave Siuys watch her?" It was a rhetorical question

At least that&039;s what he thought until Dev shook his head "We&039;re going with you"

Ash scowled "What are you talking about?"

"We knohat you&039;re planning," Angel said, "and we&039;re going with you"

He was completely stunned And when he saw Valerius, Talon, Kyrian, Julian, Zarek, Sin, Vane, Kyl, Katra, Fang, Tabitha and Fury walking in, all he could do was scowl in confusion

Why would all of the on?" Ash asked theave him a droll stare "There&039;s not one of us here that you haven&039;t put your ass on the line for-most of us more than once Alexion told us what happened with Tory and we&039;re here to watch your back no matter what you have planned"

Talon nodded "Wulf is on his way, too He&039;ll be here as soon as the plane lands and Otto can speed him over And Otto plans to stand with us too"

Valerius pulled Tabitha back "Tabitha won&039;t be fighting She&039;ll be going home very shortly, but she wanted to let you know she&039;s here in spirit"

Tabithaballs for you, Ash You know that"

He smiled at her "I know, Tabby"

"The other Dark-Hunters wanted to be here," Talon said, "but since the sun hasn&039;t quite set yet, they couldn&039;t However, once the blazing ball goes down, they&039;re here if we need theness to bleed for him It touched him on a level he hadn&039;t realized existed It hy he wanted to keep his past a secret soto stand by him if they knew the truth of his past? Or would they be like everyone else and step on him?

Just like Merus

But even so, thisto hiht"

She growled at hi her off "If Siave a low, evil laugh "I&039;lad he&039;s your father And that for once we see eye to eye"

Kat held her finger up to Sin "You are out of ht And you" She turned to Ash "Just irritateand you need uys better call Otherwise, you&039;re all in the dog house" She looked back at her husband "And you&039;re in it regardless"

Sin shrugged her ire off good-naturedly

Zarek ignored them with his habitual sneer "This still doesn&039;t mean I like you, Acheron But I owe you for my wife and son I would lay my life down for yours because without you, I wouldn&039;t have shit and I know it"

That was probably the closest thing to a declaration of love the man couldany of you to stand withjust the Dai de the bastards on"

Zarek nodded "Agreedbring on the rain The one thing I learned fro shelter in a stor to dance in the rain I don&039;t care what I kill as long as I get bloody while doing it"

Talon smiled "We&039;re here for you, T-Rex Just like you&039;ve always been here for us"