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Arte for all of the powers to fade from her temple

They didn&039;t She felt Acheron&039;s primary ones leave, but there was

That wasn&039;t Acheron

And when Soteria ca chamber and into her throne room with a deadly lope, the blood completely drained fro the woht for it

Still she refused to let the girl see her panic "You&039;re nothing to me, human"

Tory scoffed, and spoke to her in perfect Greek "Oh you&039;re wrong about that, Arte to kick your butt if you ever go near Acheron again"

Arte across the room "You don&039;t threaten me"

Tory lifted her hands and just as she would have hit the wall, she stoppedher eyes, she was stunned to find herself floating over the ground a few inches from the stone that Artemis had intended to slahed in relief These poere very cool

Holding her hands out, she centered herself back on the ground Arteht her about the neck Tory slid out of her grasp, then shoved her away "Oh, bitch, please" She threw her hand out and pinned Artehtened the hold on her "For all the times you&039;ve hurt Ash, you&039;re lucky I&039;ht no could you?"

Tears forled to free herself "I love him"

Tory shook her head "How can you say that? You don&039;t even understand what loveashamed to be seen with the one you care about It isn&039;t about punisho "Love is what gives you the strength you need to face anything noIt&039;s what allowed Ash to be beaten rather than tell his father about you It&039;s what allowed hiutted on the floor at your feet rather than publicly shame you And you spat on hioddess, you&039;re pathetic"

Artemis sneered at her "You&039;re human No one cares if you sleep with a whore"

Tory did so she&039;d never in her life done before She slapped another person

Arteht her wrists in her hands and pushed her back She leveled a oddess to let her know she ain and so help me, I&039;ll do to you what you allowed your brother to do to hiue out for it Acheron is the man I love and no one, ever, takes issue with hi issues with me"

Artemis snatched one hand free and tried to backhand her, but Tory caught her wrist again "You&039;re no better than I am," Artemis snarled "You would sacrifice him in an instant to save yourself and I know it"

Tory shook her head in denial "You&039;re wrong There is nothing on this earth, above or below, that I value reat eternity and if you want to continue having an eternity, stay out of my way and leave Acheron alone"

Artemis curled her lip "You&039;re not done with hter"

That turned her stoht You are Katra&039;s "

"And that is?"

Tory let the Destroyer&039;s power unite with Ash&039;s inside her One minute, she was normal and in the next, she felt her hair turn white blond and fan out around her as lightning engulfed her and flew out of her fingertips "I&039;er human," she said in a deuardian of the Atlantean gods And right now there&039;s only one of the about and to save him from one more bad memory created by you, I&039;d bathe in your entrails, bitch As for Kat, she&039;s a big girl-I know, I used to live with her She&039;ll survive the death of her mother Trust aped at her "You would destroy the entire world for him?"

"Yes, I would Would you?"

Arte to wish hiet out of our lives The next ti presents thataround for a new goddess of the hunt Do you understand me?"

"I understand" But her eyes said she was already plotting soet back at them

So be it Ene Tory could do about that except h backbone to coht, and for Ash she&039;d lay down her life

"Good-bye, Artemis, and for your own sake, should you ever find someone who loves you the way Ash once did, take better care of him"

With those words spoken, Tory returned to New Orleans where she found Ash waiting on the couch of his apartment He shot to his feet before he inspected her body for daht?"

"I told you I&039;d be fine"

His gaze was filled with doubt "She didn&039;t hurt you?"

"Nope" She held her hands up to show hied she was "I&039;m all hunky-dory"

The relief in his eyes touched her deeply as he bent down to place a light kiss on her lips Oh how she loved this man

"I&039;m so sorry for what I did to you," he breathed "I never meant to hurt you"

"I knoeetie" She smiled up at his have to go wrong in order to go right? Had you not fed on me, I wouldn&039;t have the powers I need to be with you So don&039;t be sorry, Ash I&039;m not"

He winced as if she&039;d struck him and that made her ache for him "I never wanted you to see me like that"

"See you like what?"

"A monster I despise my true form"

She shook her head at hiine why Other than killing me, you were actually cute in a very Papa Smurf kind of way"

"Papa S and scowled at her "I don&039;t look like Papa S tone as she playfully patted his cheek, "you don&039;t at all You look like sex on a stick Now is your ego all better?"

One eyebrow shot up at her words At least until she reached down to cup him in her hand Then he sucked his breath in sharply as she slowly unzipped his pants "What are you doing?"

She licked her lips at the heat that pounded through her veins "I&039; And honestly, Papa Sh to eat"

Ash could barely breathe as she sank to the floor in front of hiht with love an instant before she took him into her mouth

All reason flew out of his head as he watched her tease and lick "You&039;ve been reading your book again, haven&039;t you?"

She laughed and the sensation of her throat vibrating around him was more than he could stand Before he could stop hiainst the wall as his body spasmed Honestly, it was one of the best he&039;d ever had and the fact that she didn&039;t pull away from him only made it sweeter

Until he realized what he&039;d done Then he cursed at his stupidity while he waited for her to let him have it "I didn&039;t mean to, Tory I should have warned you"