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"Ido love her" Daemon’s eyes held a shadow of doubt, a hint of fear "I had to lie She wouldn’t listen to et close enough for the kill"

Daemon exploded intohis head "No," he said through gritted teeth "No, no,no!" He spun around, grabbed Lucivar’s shoulders, and shoved hiainst the wall "Who told you she was dead?who?"

Lucivar snapped his arrip "Dorothea"

Pain flashed over Daemon’s face He stepped back "Since when do you listen to Dorothea?" he asked bitterly "Since when do you believe that lying bitch?"

"I don’t"

"Then why--"

"Words lie Blood doesn’t" Lucivar waited for Daemon to absorb the iely "All that blood All that pain"

"Stop," Dae "Lucivar, please You don’t understand She was already hurt, already in pain, and I--"

"Seduced her, lied to her, raped a twelve-year-old girl"

"No!"

"Did you enjoy it, Bastard?"

"I didn’t--"

"Did you enjoy touching her?"

"Lucivar, please--"

"did you?"

"yes!"

With a howl of rage, Lucivar threw hih force to snap the chains--but not fast enough He crashed to the floor, scraping the skin froet his breath back It took anotherHe stared at the thick layer of ice that covered the cell’s stone walls Then he slowly got to his feet, swaying on shaking legs, feeling a bitterness so deep it lacerated his soul

Daemon stood nearby, his hands in his trouser pockets, his face an expressionless lazed and sleepy

"I hate you," Lucivar whispered hoarsely

"At theis veryto find her, Lucivar I’ to find her just to prove she isn’t dead And after I find her, I’ue"

Daemon disappeared The front of the cell exploded

Lucivar dropped to the floor, his wings tight to his body, his ar his head while pebbles and sand rained down on hi feet

Lucivar sprang to his feet as the guards poured through the opening He bared his teeth and snarled, his gold eyes shining with rage The guards took one look at hiht, they blocked the opening but didn’t try to enter

Lucivar watched theh clenched teeth

He could have fought his way past the guards and followed Dae a bolt of pain through the Ring of Obedience around his organ, Daeainst her No ht with each other, he and Daeainst an outside enemy

He could have followed and forced the battle that would have destroyed one or both of them Instead he remained in the cell

He had sworn that he would kill Dae himself to destroy his brother Not yet

chapterTwo

1 / Terreille

The knocking sounded forceful, urgent Dorothea SaDiablo hid her shaking hands in the folds of her nightgown and positioned herself in the ht that di for Daeht of day, with her court all around her, she could almost convince herself that he wouldn’t come to Hayll, that he would stay in whatever hole he’d found to hide in But at night, she was certain she would open a door or turn a corner and find hiining, and then he would kill her The insult underneath that violence was that he wouldn’t destroy her for all the things she’d done to him, he would destroy her because of that child

That dah Lord’s reappearance, Greer’s death, her son Kartane’s mysterious illness, Daemon’s fury, Lucivar’s sudden hatred for his half brother--all of it cairl

The doorknob turned The door opened an inch

"Priestess?" a male voice called softly

Giddy relief iftly replaced by anger "Come in," she snapped

Lord Valrik, Dorothea’s Master of the Guard, entered the rooive the intrusion at this hour,

Priestess, but I felt you should know about this iuards entered, holding aHayllian Blood uards Little more than a boy really And pretty Just the way she liked them Too much the way she liked them