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Danger didn&039;t knohat to believe as she headed ho with Kyros and her powers had waned a lot more than she should have allowed She felt weak and sick, and in truth, she wanted nothing ive herself tih everything they had told her tonight To be honest, Stryker had uments

"You have been trained that all Daimons are evil and out to prey on humans Well, newsflash, we&039;re not the ones who are in the wrong Acheron is He was cast out of our hoer abide his ra It&039;s why he uses you to kill us now He wants revenge on us

"Your pohen you&039;re together because Acheron took your souls and has devoured them That&039;s why the first Dark-Hunters were allowed to stay together In the beginning, their souls weren&039;t dead He actually did have them But after Acheron ate the souls of Kyros and Callabrax then they were like the rest of you and could no longer be together without it draining their powers"

Still, that hadn&039;t irl, your souls are dead That&039;s why you can&039;t be in a rooy that sustains you, that keeps you aniy of the other soulless being Why do you think you don&039;t lose your powers around a Daiether without harm That&039;s why you can be with Acheron and not feel the drain and why Acheron can go into a cemetery and not be possessed He, unlike you, has a stolen soul inside hier had still been skeptical "That doesn&039;t make sense What about Kyrian and the other Dark-Hunters who have gotten their souls back?"

Stryker&039;s answer had been autoot soht of all "Yeah, right We all know that anytime a soul enters a body that it&039;s not meant for, the soul withers and dies in a matter of weeks Kyrian has had his soul back for years now"

Stryker had laughed evilly at that "That&039;s not true if the soul conant women so much If you take the soul of the unborn, it can sustain you until the body dies"

Those words had left her cold To do such a thing was an abomination

She still wasn&039;t sure if it was possible

"How could Acheron get such a soul?" she&039;d asked

"Where do you think the medallions come from that he uses to restore a Dark-Hunter to his or her previous human state? Our mother is the keeper of souls" He had looked at Kyros "The Greek word for &039;Destroyer&039; is the Atlantean word for &039;soul&039; Your people od of destruction, but in truth, she is a guardian of souls My brother uses a demon to steal those souls from her whenever he needs one He then returns the souls to a handful of you every so often so that the rest of you will continue to obey him He knows you have to have hope in order to not turn on hiusted with your existence and duties It&039;s why you o to him whenever you want to be free He does this whole &039;I have to petition Artemis&039; bullshit when in truth what he has to do is break into our mother&039;s temple and steal a new soul Trust me, there is no Artemis to petition"

It all sounded so preposterous

Truth is stranger than fiction

That was true enough, and she couldn&039;t get past the eyes No one had thosesilver eyes except for Acheron and Stryker They both had black hair, which Stryker had turned blond before her eyes

"Why do you think you never see Acheron with blond hair? He&039;s afraid that you&039;ll see it and then you&039;ll know hier turned her car down the street to head ho she had ever believed about the Dark-Hunter world and her place in it was now uncertain She hated Kyros for that As a human, she&039;d allowed oneshe held dear

Had she allowed another ?

Just who could she trust? Who wasn&039;t lying to her?

"Why didn&039;t you have Stryker try to killyou?" she&039;d asked Kyros after he told her that they knew she had called Acheron to report his questionable activities with the Daihed at her "I wanted you to tell hioing Rogue Trust er," Kyros had said "Acheron won&039;t come here and face us hireed "He&039;s right You called Acheron because you were concerned about the fact that you&039;d heard Kyros orking with Dai them Now Acheron will send in his pawn to supposedly &039;investigate&039; The blondto be Acheron&039;s Squire, even though everyone knows Acheron doesn&039;t have one Instead of a Squire, he&039;s Acheron&039;s assassin You&039;ll know hi a white coat"

She had rolled her eyes at theht That&039;s not only tacky, that&039;s stupid"

"No," Kyros had said "White is the Greek and Atlantean color for "

Stryker nodded "This so-called Squire is essentially Acheron&039;s angel of death and he will kill all of you who know the truth about Acheron unless we kill both of thehten to the point of pain

Acheron had never been anything but friendly to her He&039;d been the one who had coeance against her husband He had taught her how to fight and how to survive Acheron had introduced her into this world with a great deal of care