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"You&039;ve come full circle now, Slaine," Ronath said from outside Malkom&039;s cell, the same one in which he&039;d been io "And still after all these centuries, you are nothing"

Narrowing his bloodied and swollen eyes, Malko for release Earlier, the aruards to beat hih Ronath could now trace "And still you are a coward, one who has always feared ed, his elaborate ar to me because we both know that I&039;ve won And you, Scarba, will always lose It ht take hundreds of years, but you will always fail"

Never had Malko Ronath said was true

I wanted to live with Carrow That was all

Though the idea of being kept from his female made him crazed - he&039;d sworn he would never be separated from her - he had one consolation Ronath wouldn&039;t find her So I win By the ti Malko, she would be long gone

Malkom had made her so furious that there was no chance she&039;d try to follow him As if there&039;d been a chance before the bite She would ht With the power she&039;d de, she should be safe

I would have liked to see her world To have her show it to me

Would she wonder what had become of him?

It didn&039;t matter He would die here, and she would be safe from these demons

Ronath ran the tip of his bone spear under a claw "Surely even you can recognize that you were born just to be punished What I do not understand is why you haven&039;t simply ended yourself Seems you are more coward than I"

Kallen had once asked hiht of Malko, when Malkoht into the city, memories of his imprisonun to marvel at what he&039;d survived

The torture and pain, the unending loneliness

In this very cell, he&039;d been trapped with the body of his best friend for days The brother he&039;dso badly Even before he&039;d been released, Malkom had realized that Kallen&039;s actions hadn&039;t been the betrayal he thought; the prince had merely decided on a rational course of action

The better male lives, the lesser sacrifices

In four hundred years, Malko Kallen could have achieved so much more

Yet now Malkom realized that if he hadn&039;t had the will to live that night, he never would have known his witch, wouldn&039;t have been here to save her life

He pictured Carrow s up at hi enough to protect the most ex"uisite woman born, to pleasure her I savored her cries in uarded her to the end

Gods, how much more easily he would have been able to withstand his past if he&039;d known she&039;d be in his future, for even this short a tio, Malko to die for Kallen, but for the witch

I do it gladly

Malko of

"I know it&039;s about to end," Ronath replied, turning to call for the guards "It&039;s ti ritual With ret

He&039;d broken his vow to Carrow

She&039;d been enraged with him And he hadn&039;t had the words to tell her that he&039;d bitten her because he was ceding his heart to her Little by little, &039;twas beco of her in return

Carrow surveyed the deust

No wind stirred down on this plateau, which should have been a good thing, but the air s dust, the sun beat down Bleached bones and behorned skulls littered the streets

Most of the buildings had decayed into ruins, their bricks cru

Even with the full force of Carrow&039;s reonizing hours And with each one, she&039;d become more convinced that the demons had captured Malkoive hfare, she saw a crowd gathered in the distance With the last of her power, she wove a glamour over herself so she&039;d appear to have a fine cloak covering her body and hair Beneath it, she would be bedecked in a rich silk gown, gold jewelry, and even a crown

If she had to interact with demons from a class-stratified society, then she&039;d look like ive orders

In this master/slave world, perhaps she should even act as if she owned Malkoet to ht be able to denizance

So says the chick eekends in Parish Correctional