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"I&039; to kill all of us We know too ereuse St Richard stood in the receiving room of Kyros&039;s antebellum mansion outside of Aberdeen, Mississippi, with her arms folded over her chest She&039;d never been on the best of terht, she wasn&039;t in the mood for his bull, especially not after the stories she&039;d heard that said Kyros had turned Rogue and was allowing Daimons to live-and this froht

She had no patience with anyone who betrayed the Dark-Hunter Code

The sole job of a Dark-Hunter was to kill Daimons ere former members of the cursed Apollite race-children of Apollo who had offended hie twenty-seven If Apollites chose to start sucking human souls before that birthday, they became Daimons who could live indefinitely But for every Dai she refused to tolerate If she could kill Kyros for it, she would But for one Dark-Hunter to kill another was instant death She couldn&039;t even attack him Whatever she did to him, she would experience ten tiift

Until Acheron answered her call for help, there was nothing she could do to stop Kyros from his madness

In fact, she could feel the drain on her powers just fro in the same roonificant a each other&039;s powers

The room she and Kyros stood in was dark and musty, and should have been decorated with antiques instead of the n of the house The walls were painted a deep, antebellus held exquisite white medallions The hardwood, pine floors under her feet were scuffed and in bad need of repair How odd for a Squire not to take better care of his Dark-Hunter&039;s property

But that was neither here nor there Right now she hadbusiness with Kyros than the fact that he had no taste and his Squire had no clear understanding of his job description

"Okay, Kyros" She spoke slowly, choosing her words carefully "Acheron is a Daimon who feeds off huht a ith his mother, the Daimon queen, who no Dark-Hunter has ever heard of Uh-huh"

He slammed his hand down on the cherrywood desk he sat behind "Dammit, woman, listen to me I&039;inning-one of the first Dark-Hunters ever created-and I remember stories of Apollymi from my childhood She was called the Destroyer and she was Atlantean just like Acheron"

So it was a coincidence Two Atlanteans did not a family make She most certainly wasn&039;t the only French Dark-Hunter, she wasn&039;t even the only one to come out of the French Revolution, and none of the shot

Kyros would need a lot more proof than that to convince her that Acheron was the son of this Atlantean god-queen

She gave hi the Daiainst Acheron, who is just using us and the humans as cannon fodder to protect hio write children&039;s fantasy novels" She leaned forward and whispered loudly "I&039;ll bet you even know exactly who conspired to kill Kennedy, huh? I&039;m sure thecollection of furniture"

He bolted to his feet and approached her "Don&039;t patronize ht Have you ever seen Acheron eat food? We all know he&039;s a lot more powerful than the rest of us Didn&039;t you ever wonder why?"

That was a no-brainer in her book "He&039;s the oldest and has had his powers a lot longer than the rest of us You know the saying &039;practice makes perfect,&039; and that man has had a lot of practice As for food, I haven&039;t been around hih to notice"

"Yeah, well, I was around hio, and while Brax and I ate, he never did After ere created, Acheron wrote down his bullshit rules and the rest of us have been blindly following the the for ourselves"

She made a noise of sarcastic arand epiphany of yours?"

Kyros laughed at that as an evil, spooky look came over him "Do you really want to know?"

"Pourquoi pas? Why not?"

"Stryker!"

Danger frowned at his shout Half a ht in the rooht-sensitive Dark-Hunter eyes fro But the hair on the back of her neck rose as she sensed a Daier, she pulled the dagger out of her boot and straightened to confront it

Kyros grabbed her ared at his actions "You would invite a filthy Daimon into your house?"

The question had barely left her lips before the Daimon sensation ceased The newco beacon that announced a Daih Danger as she looked at the newco black hair that flowed around his shoulders, and he wore a pair of opaque sunglasses over his eyes

"What&039;s going on here?" she asked Kyros

Kyros let go of her "Yeah I didn&039;t believe it, either, at first But he can mask the Daimon in him so that we can&039;t feel his presence"

"How?" she asked

The Dais "It&039;s a trait that runs in my family My mother can do it I can do it andat the twoabout

Not until he re silver eyes that she had only seen on one man before

Acheron Parthenopaeus

"He&039;s Acheron&039;s brother," Kyros said as if he could hear her thoughts "And he&039;s told s about our fearless leader that have left me cold Acheron isn&039;t who or what you think he is and neither are we"

"So how did you do that thing thatnext to the Squire as driving hier&039;s home, Alexion winced as Keller continued to ramble on with questions and comments The man had three speech speeds: fast, faster, and "shut up beforeto follow you" He&039;d always been told that Southern Americans spoke slowly

That was apparently a myth

He hadn&039;t had a headache since he&039;d been huinning to feel throbbing pain between his te, picking up speed with every word "Now, you haven&039;t answered otta know You know, if we could all think them Daimons into pieces it would sure be a whole lot easier Can you i at theot to tell ot to know, you know?"

Alexion flexed his jaw before he answered "It&039;s a trade secret"

"Yeah, but I&039;m in the trade Squires need to know, too We&039;re not the ones who are immortal so it seems we should know first, you know? C&039;mon, tell"I would show you, but it would kill you to use it"

Come to think of it, that wasn&039;t such a bad idea

He opened his rowled at Acheron&039;s voice in his mind "Either do this yourself, or stay out of my head"

"Fine, you&039;re on your own froo play solitaire or soame As if he had a minute to spare