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"Ask what you want," Ariyal gritted "How did you avoid being banished with the other Sylverly answered "Our Prince bartered with Morgana le Fay to remain hidden in her sanctuary"

Hell Talk about a deal with the devil

Tane jerked back in shock "Avalon?"

Ariyal shrugged "What better place? Nothing could penetrate the shroud of ic"

Tane could think of a shitload of better places

Beginning with the fiery pits of hell

Morgana le Fay was a cruel alomaniac who had terrorized the fey, and every other deic, until her seer had predicted that she would be condemned to hell by a descendent of her brother, Arthur

She’d predictably retreated to her private island and shrouded it in a thick layer of h she occasionally returned to the world in the hopes of killing off Arthur’s descendents

A poor choice in the end

"What did you barter?" he asked

Ariyal se in his pulse and the sudden sweating of his palood

"We were slaves in her hareround his teeth so hard it was a wonder they didn’t shatter "Sex slaves"

Tane grimaced He wouldn’t wish that on his worst eneana I’m surprised you survived" "Many didn’t"

"Then you were fortunate that the vaed to destroy her"

The Sylvermyst snorted, but the horror faded from his eyes as he reacted to Tane’s deliberate taunt

"She was defeated by the descendent of King Arthur"

"Anna is the mate of a vampire, and it was only with the assistance of ana le Fey," Tane said with cool logic "It would seem you are in our debt"

"What makes you think I wanted her dead?"

"A lie," Jaelyn said from the door, her tone stripped of eotten a hunter’s skill often included being able to sense a lie "You didn’t ask lance in her direction "I have broken no rules of the ga on there

But none of his concern

Hallelujah

"What is your interest in the child?" he instead demanded

"We were hired by the valanced toward Jaelyn She nodded "He speaks the truth, but not the full truth" "You’re ahis words with care "I’ to sell our services with the proper incentive"

"And what incentive did Marika offer you?"

"The opportunity to locate the supposed child of the Dark Lord"

"Supposed?" Tane latched onto the word, certain that it had been a slip "Is there some question to the child’s identity?"

The Sylvermyst quickly recovered "Only a fool accepts rumors and obscured folktale as truth"

Tane shifted with i He answered the question with just enough truth to avoid a painful

"You hope to return the Dark Lord to the world?" he pressed

"The Sylvermyst have worshipped him before vampires ever crawled from their caves" Another evasion

But if he didn’t want to return the Dark Lord, then as he searching for the baby? It made no sense

"How does Marika intend to use the child to return the bastard?"

Ariyal shrugged "She claie has a spell that will resurrect his essence within the child"

With a growl, Tane shoved the sword back against the fey’s neck, frustration boiling through him

How the hell could he keep Laylah safe if he was stu around blind?

"What are you really up to, Ariyal?"

The Sylveraze without fear "I’ve answered your questions"

Deciding that he was going to have to beat the answers out of the bastard, Tane felt a sharp pang of fear slice through him

He stepped backward, ainst his chest as he realized he was feeling Laylah’s fear, not his own