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"Maybe not Aeron used to be keeper of Wrath, but he’s now deiven a new body"
"So I’ll get a new body, too," Kane said Maybe there was a store somewhere
"That’s not hoorks"
"Look The demon left me before--" when Tink had sucked him out "--and I did just fine"
"You were only alone for a short period of time"
And he knew that, how? "Yeah So?"
"So, the creature’s departure emptied you out Eventually you would have died"
Disbelief would have wasted time Sent Ones couldn’t lie Frustrated, Kane scrubbed a hand down his face "Explain"
"Think of a cup filled with oil When the cup is tipped over, the oil spills out Soon there is nothing left but emptiness"
And Kane’s body was the cup
"Man cannot live on empty" Malcolm paused, said, "Tell me Do you hate your wife?"
Theto attack "Back off, warrior I won’t hesitate to snuff you out"
"I’ll take that as a no, you don’t hate her Then ere you kissing another woman to caler How dare this piece of-- The words that wasn’t necessary registered, and he stilled "What do you mean, that wasn’t necessary?"
"You Lords of the Underworld," Malcol with the evil for so long, you’ve siht it every day"
"Do you?"
He sucked in a breath "You’re on dangerous ground again,"What you feed grows stronger What you starve eventually dies"
O-kay "You’ve lost me"
"Are you always this obtuse?"
"Are you always this rude?"
"Yes"
Sent Ones and their honesty,up and puttingthe deet what you’re saying Helpto walk away from this day with Tink at his side "If I starve the demon, he’ll throw a tantrum"
Malcolm leaned back and crossed his arms over his chest "So what When you deprive your body of food, your storumble loudly in protest The dery, it acts up Deny him satisfaction, and his power to throw tantru Life, and death "I can kill the de in hisKane, as well
Realization slammed hard, but true To keep Tink safe, forever, he had to die And if he died, he would never have his revenge against Disaster How could he? They would meet the same fate
There would be no happily ever after for hiht this There had to be another way A way that would allow him to live with his wife for an eternity, to watch Disaster perish and finally have the last laugh But just then, with the Sent One watching him with the barest measure of pity, he knew there wasn’t And in the end, he would rather die, knowing Tink was safe, than live, knowing he was putting her in danger
She was eance
Heart racing, Kane said, "I have to go" But he paused a few feet away, ainto place "I don’t kno to help you with your demon problem, but I do know you have a friend that disappeared," he said, re what he’d heard about the Sent One, Thane, from Taliyah Malcolm stiffened "I heard he appeared in one of the Phoenix ca him captive"
Hope flared in Malcolm’s eyes
Kane leaped back into motion He would do this He would starve and kill the de it would take It would be best to call Lucien, and have Tink whisked to a safe zone now, before Disaster began to act out froer pains, but he wanted to spend every one of his reain--and he would--Kane would just have to find a way to shield her Because if he was going to die with a smile on his face, he needed her by his side
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
THE MOMENT KANE burst into the hotel room, Josephina launched a pillow at his head He stopped in his tracks, and she launched another
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