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Dorothea got to her feet and pointed at Surreal "Secure that bitch," she snapped at a couple of guards Then she turned to Hekatah "You can’t really believe Sadi"

"The High Lord does," Hekatah said quietly "Andthat’s very interesting" She hissed when Dorothea started to protest "We’ll discuss this in private"

She walked to her cabin with Dorothea reluctantly following

After chaining Surreal to the post on Saetan’s left, the guards gathered up the deaddarkness, finally returned to their duties

"Your son’s a cold-blooded bastard," Surreal said quietly

Saetan thought about the look in Daeht about the man he should have knoell--and didn’t know at all Closing his eyes, he rested his head against the post, and said, "I only have one son now--and he’s Eyrien"

"Hello, Prick"

Lucivar turned his head, watched Daelide out of the darkness and circle around to stand directly in front of hi for son from Daemon that it was time to attack The spelled chains couldn’t have held hi of Obedience didn’t debilitate hi--at least, it didn’t drain hih Lord No, what had made him hold back and as the threat to Marian and Daeuard inside the far hut that was being used as one of the prisons, and that guard had orders to kill his wife and son if he broke free So he had waited, especially after Saetan had surrendered to those two bitches, because he had realized that Saetan had known there wouldn’t be an exchange, had walked in expecting to beco it

So when he saw Dae that bored, sleepy,terrifying look He’d danced with the Sadist enough times in the past to know that look meant they were all in serious trouble

"Hello, Bastard," he said carefully

Daeertips drifted up Lucivar’s arm, over the shoulder, traced the collarbone

"What’s the game?" Lucivar asked quietly Then he shivered as Dae his jaw

"It’s sier over Lucivar’s lower lip "You’re going to die, and I’ to rule" He met Lucivar’s eyes and sdoht years in that torave the debt," Lucivar snarled softly "I gave you the chance to settle it, and you chose to forgive it"

Daeently settled on Lucivar’s neck He leaned forward until his lips alive you?"

Froed howl

Daemon stepped back Smiled Slipped his hands into his trouser pockets "You’re going to pay for those years, Prick," Dae to pay dearly"

Lucivar’s heart pounded in his throat as Daelided toward the hut that held Marian and Daemonar "Bastard? Bastard, waitI’m the one es the debt You can’t Daemon?Daeuard hurried out

"DAEMON!"

A few minutes after that, Lucivar heard his son screa you, it’s a trick of some kind Iknow Sadi"

"Do you?" Hekatah snapped

Ithink it’s hthave been if he’d had the balls for it

Yes, she had been able to sense the ruthlessness, the ahtened her a little It excited her even th to acquire power He fought against every atte hi," Hekatah snarled "If you had doted on Sadi the way you had doted on that excuse for a son--"

"You used to think it was ah Lord’s boy You said it would make a man out of him"

And it had It had honed Sadi’s cruelty, his taste for perverse pleasure She had sensed that, too Just as she had sensed that it wouldn’t be easy to get around his deep hatred for Dorothea Well, she wouldn’t let that interfere with herown a difficult, unreliable She would have had to eliminate the bitch after the on anyway

"I tell you, he’s up to so him wander around the camp to do who knohat"

"What ae, we can’t go up against the Black and expect to win"

"We’vegot leverage," Dorothea said through clenched teeth

Hekatah let out a nasty laugh "What leverage? If he reallyhas destroyed Andulvar, Prothvar, and Mephis, he’s not going to squirround"

"You picked the wronga hand "He ive a damn about Saetan, but he’s always buckled when Lucivar was threatened Lucivar’s been the one chain we could count on to hold Sadi If you threatened--" She paused, sniffed, looked toward the door, and said uneasily, "What’s that smell?"

"What’s that suards roasting some meat for toine anyone wanting to eat anything that smelled that vile "Do you smell it?" She turned her head to look at Saetan--and didn’t like what she saw Not one little bit Since Daeh Lord had just been staring straight ahead Just staring "Uncle Saetan?"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>