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Kyrian didn’t want to talk about his wife Ever Acheron scoffed at the idea of love as the ultimate stupidity You knohat love is, Nick? It’s a wo you In the wrong hands, it’s the worst, ive your heart away, e ’Cause once you let theutted with a dull spoon

He didn’t want to knohat had happened to Acheron to iven the fact that Ash had died at age twenty-one To have that kind of hatred eleven thousand years later…

Yeah, someone had hurt Ash badly

The Were-Hunter shapeshifters had their mates chosen for them by the Fates, so they didn’t really date like humans, and they definitely didn’t have a choice or say in who their spouses were

The only people he kneere h to ask Or they were divorced, which didn’t bode well since they’d obviously made a mistake when they picked sos no one else did He could be having the absolute worst day and with one set all about it

"Did you enjoy your time in Azmodea?"

Nick curled his lip at the fa him now? Couldn’t he have five seconds to decoh hi "It certainly wasn’t Disney World--unless Mickey sold his soul to Satan Not that I’ve ever been to Disney World Heck, I haven’t even been to Six Flags and it’s just over the bridge"

The power from Ambrose made the hair on his arms stand on end

Ambrose’s aura practically sizzled with its lethal capabilities "I can’t believe you got out of there in one piece I had to betray the closest thing I’ve ever had to a friend to escape it"

A bad feeling went through Nick While the voice was definitely A his eyes, he saw aresemblance to Ambrose Except this one had short, military-cut jet-black hair, and he stood about two inches taller Even , he was covered with prison tattoos

Definitely not Ambrose

This was his father

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CHAPTER 11

Nick tried to call for help, but he was completely paralyzed He couldn’t even blink If he so ht about Kody or Caleb, a sharp pain pierced his brain

Was he being stabbed with an ice pick?

His father gave his you were born to do … Too bad you won’t live long enough to experience any of the he had, Nick did his best to break free

He couldn’t Never had he experienced anything like this It was terrifying Forget being Force-choked by Vader, this was even et free, oldto bleed

Yeah, okay, so itto put up ashe could do

Adarian’s gaze was frigid as he ainst the inside corner of Nick’s left eye In his head, Nick screaony of it But the sound wouldn’t leave his throat

He was the only one who heard it

His father had him completely paralyzed

"That’s it," Adarian whispered before he sucked his breath in with pleasure "Feed , tchu!"

Nick’s eyes widened at a Cajun insult he’d never heard his mother use before In fact, she went into a full babiller on his hide, using words that shocked hi of

Her shrill voice ringing off the walls, she ran toward theainst Adarian to shove him away from the bed Given the fact that she was about a foot and a half shorter and probably weighed less than one of Adarian’s et away froritted teeth

"I just wanted to see him He is my son, after all"

She backed Adarian into a corner like a Chihuahua cowing a Doberman "You shouldn’t be here and you know it How are you here? I know you didn’t ain"

Adarian’s gaze softened as he faced her anger without flinching "I’d forgotten how beautiful you are" He reached to cup her cheek

Histo touchto move or speak, but whatever Adarian had done to hilaze in his eyes that told Nick he was listening to the ether, Adarian went ramrod stiff When he looked back at his mother, his face was a mask of disbelief "You’re the one who turned me in to the cops after I robbed that bank, aren’t you?"

"Yes, I did," she said proudly between her clenched teeth, straightening up to her full height, which barely reached the middle of his father’s chest "I didn’t care what you did to me I didn’t But when you hitNobody touches ot in this world and I will slaughter you like a hog at Christain You hear me?"

Adarian appeared as stunned by her attack as Nick was "You turned me in" Disbelief haunted his voice

"I Did," she repeated

The hurt in his eyes was tangible And it was telling Adarian loved her

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