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Roke snorted "Don’t you have a village to plunder, Goth-boy?"

Styx allowed his power to slice through the air with an icy edge The surrounding vampires flinched in pain

Clearly the Anasso was in a e the patrols Make sure no one goes alone," he co fro Roke an option, Styx grabbed him by the upper arm and led hi of the wide staircase

Roke pulled free of his coo in trouble?" he abruptly deo spends his life skirting on the edge of trouble"

"Perhaps I should have asked if he was inGaius"

"What about him?"

"It seems the bastard has acquired a nasty new talent"

That didn’t sound good

"Should I ask?"

"Santiago clai hu them hat?"

"Violence"

Roke frowned Was this some sort of joke? "I don’t understand"

"I don’t either, but I’ out scouts to make sure we prevent any unwelcome surprises," Styx muttered

"Perfect" Roke pounced on the excuse to escape the lair "Sign me up"

"Not you" Styx swiftly shut him down "I need you to stay here"

Roke barely sed his growl of annoyance "Why?"

"I’ain an audience with the Oracles"

"And?" Roke prouarded "And I need you to protect the lair"

Roke was getting a bad feeling about this

A very bad feeling

"And?"

"And to keep an eye on our guest"

Shit, he knew it

"The witch?" he ground out

"Unless you’ve added to our collection in the dungeons?"

"Why would I?" He planted his hands on his hips, glaring at the older vaot"

"It’s only until we’ve discovered what the hell is going on with Gaius"

"Easy for you to say"

"Easy?" Styx o speak with the Oracles?"

Ohhell, no

Not that he was about to ad Aztec in front of him "You knohat I want," he instead snapped

Styx paused, studying Roke with a piercing intelligence "Is there so on with this witch I should know about?"

Roke clenched his hands What was there to know about? That he’d spent the daylight hours plagued by the thought of warlorious autumn hair that smelled of peaches? That he’d had to force his feet to carry hieons?<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>