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Kat sighed in content her know he&039;d finally gone to sleep She was actually surprised that she&039;d won the arguet frisky with her

But even though she wanted to be with hioing way too fast for her She&039;d just h they&039;d shared so much already, she still needed tiiven her a playful pout, then wrapped his arms around her and settled down to sleep In so sex with hi to close his eyes and relax around her She could do anything to hiht now and he&039;d be powerless to stop her

She could shave his head, paint his fingernails pink put h at the thought of hi?" His deep voice was a sleepy ruht you were asleep"

"I was until your hip touched old eyes opened to stare at her "Kind of hard to stay asleep with the sainst mine" He rolled over, onto his back "It&039;s actually cruel"

"I&039;le up to his side She laid her head on his chest and just inhaled the masculine scent of his body She stared at her hand, which was incredibly pale on top of his dark skin Kissing him just above his nipple, she closed her eyes

Sin&039;s body jerked at the sweetness of her actions He still couldn&039;t believe he was sharing his bed with her and they weren&039;t doing anything other than sleeping in it

What the hell rong with him? He&039;d never done this with a wolib words rang in his head now And he wasn&039;t so sure he&039;d survive this

And yet at the saainst hih her pale hair He didn&039;t knohy, but he&039;d always been fascinated by blond hair Hers was like spun gold whispering against his skin He fanned it over her shoulders and sht of her pink flannel pajanities never cease? The least she could have done ear a negligee

"Those aren&039;t coions while you sleep"

But who cares? You would have and you wouldn&039;t have been able to keep your hands off her in that case

Yeah, she&039;d pegged hihed as he pulled at the flannel sleeve Personally, he wanted to go back in time, find whoever had created pajamas for sleepwear, and beat the hell out of him Surely he wasn&039;t the only man who&039;d ever felt that way

Of course it wouldn&039;t be nearly so bad if Kat couldn&039;t conjure her own clothes Then he could have insisted she sleep naked or at the very least in one of his T-shirts

Flannel sucked

Sleep, Sin

That was easier said than done Honestly, this felt like a whole new kind of torture His body hite-hot and aching, with no relief in sight No wonder so, his exhaustion overtook hiain His dreah his battles, then back further in tiallu were born-not of a s so that they could survive and be born even if the mother was killed

After sex, one fes that would survive heat or cold They were virtually indestructible

Anu had stood on a precipice high above the nest as the first hatchlings began cracking open their shells "Look at them, Sin This is the ultimate weapon Let any pantheon try to defeat us now"

"They are beautiful," Anatu on her patrician face Not only Anu&039;s wife, she was the goddess of creation Tall and graceful, she&039;d been a vision standing by her husband&039;s side

She&039;d also been the first victigs, they had rushed up the cavern walls to the three of them

Sin had killed thile six had attacked Anatuotten her free, but not before she&039;d been bitten At first they&039;d thought nothing about it At the tiallu bites could create others of their kind

Because the de and their venoht away She&039;d htfall that they&039;d learned the true horror of what had been created

Anatuone after Anu in his sleep He&039;d barely been able to keep her froht, he&039;d confined her to a cage

Even though they were gods, there was no way to save her And because of her god powers, she was even erous than the others

With no choice, Sin had taken his daughter, Ishtar, and they had destroyed Anatum and allowed Ishtar to absorb her powers and replace her in the pantheon Anu had been sick over the loss Sick with guilt over what he&039;d unleashed

At least until Enlil had come forward

Because of his powers over deh so that they could gain control of theed the so valuable?" Enlil was e we have to fight the Atlanteans with Iine if they were to ever co pantheon," Sin had argued

"Tell that to the Greeks who are locked in ith them even as we speak"

Still, Sin had tried to talk sense into his father "The Greeks Gods were the aggressors"

"Mark my words, one day the Atlanteans will coallu destroy their Charonte deods unleash the Charonte on us"

But Sin had known the future He&039;d sensed it, and no one would believe hi you can hold a jackal by its ears before it turns on you, Father We can&039;t let these creatures live Sooner or later, they will destroy us"

Enlil had scoffed at him "You are a fool, Nana We need them You&039;ve seen the Atlanteans This will keep them out of our beds if you knohat I mean" He&039;d looked past Sin to where Sin&039;s wife sat with Ishtar "And I know that you do"

Shamed to the depth of his soul, Sin had to catch hi as Enlil had possession of the Tablet, there was no way to defeat hi of a de the seed of our own destruction"

"I austed with his father&039;s unreasonableness, Sin had walked off There was no convincing those who refused to see what they were shown

On his way out, he&039;d passed by his wife Ningal&039;s gaze had lanced to her chest where she wore an Atlantean sun symbol The seal of their pantheon One corner of hersmile

He&039;d felt slapped to the core of his soul How dare she flaunt her affairs so openly But then Archon was a full god and he was not

So be it

"Ignore them"

Sin had continued on his ith Zakar, invisible to the others, by his side It was a trick that Zakar had learned as a child Even though it was dangerous, Sin was grateful for his brother&039;s support "Easier said than done"

"Ningal is a faithless bitch Don&039;t worry about her I&039;ll ht when she tries to sleep"

Sin had sht But it didn&039;t distract hiht about this, Zakar I know it"

"I&039; to listen to you They&039;re so afraid of the enemy outside that they are blind to the one they&039;re creating in their own house It&039;s never the invader frodom It&039;s always the one from within That one person trusted who didn&039;t deserve it The one liar who smiles in your face and then spits on your charity because they think they deserve ht But it changed nothing

Sin had paused in the garden to look at hi, Brother Let theames and spew their venom In the end, they are the ones their poison will destroy Nothing negative survives for long They will turn on each other because they know no other way"

"And the world outside? What of it? The humans who look to us for protection? What will happen to theallu are released?"

"They will have their champions We will be there, you and I We won&039;t let the de anymore and neither were the warriors they had once trained to fight the gallu The humans were all dead and the demons had torn Zakar down and tortured hi left but a shell of a od

It was sobering and horrifying

Suddenly Sin felt a warm hand on his shoulder He turned with his lip curled, expecting to see his wife

Instead, it was Kat She looked like an angel standing there, and it made his entire body burn He&039;d never been happier to see anyone

"What are you doing here?" he asked her

"I brought her to you"

Sin turned back to his brother, as now circling them "I don&039;t understand"

"This isn&039;t a dream, Sin It&039;s a war" Zakar shot a blast of fire at hih it was a drea, Sin rolled until the fire was out He looked up at Zakar "What are you doing?"

Zakar threw out his hand and a barbed whip coiled around Sin&039;s forearm He hissed in pain as Zakar jerked the whip and wrenched his arm out of joint

Kat turned on Zakar

"No! Don&039;t hurt him"

Zakar moved to blast Kat She ducked and shot back a blast that sent hiot any more tricks? How about this?" She blasted him with ice

Sin pushed himself to his feet and ran to her "Kat, stop You&039;re hurting hi you or me I say let hi up froht

"Listen to her, Sin She&039;s right How do you even know this is ed into the form of Kessar "Maybe I&039;ht hiround "What are you?"

"I&039;m fractured, brother I&039;ve come here because this is the only realer in control of myself when I&039;m in my body I can&039;t trust me when I&039;m awake, and neither can you"