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"Do you confess your pact with the Devil, Hexe?" The words were softly spoken, al in tone "If you do, I may yet spare your life"

That made me snort "Even if I didn't know better from Elisabeth, did you miss the part where I read your book? That includes the section where you rationalize lying to prisoners about letting theood Inquisitor"

His fist s my lip bleed before it healed "Confess and renounce your allegiance to the Great Deceiver!"

"Judging from how surprised Sarah hen you turned on her, I'd say that label fits you to a tee, also," I noted

His brows drew together, and he advanced until that reeking breath made me thrilled that I didn't need to breathe anyged as much as my bound hands would allow I had a plan, but I wasn't about to let hi as his attention was on me instead of Francine and Lisa, I'd take all the abuse he could dish out

Well, within lirasped the center of my shirt and carefully pulled the material away from the hilt of the knife He'd already takenme in my simple black button-down blouse and jeans Once my blouse was free of the blade, he pulled it open in opposite directions with his unnaturally strong grip The lantern cast flickering light over his face as he stared at ed at the front ofring that a pig like hiet it up when he was human if the wohost clad in flesh, he probably didn't have that issue; but with the look he gave e away in shame I didn't; only my skin was bare, but it was his soul that was exposed with these actions I wasn't asha the knife jutting between them I was furious I wanted to rip hie wasn't what I needed right now In order to send outelse

It wasn't hard to tap into enough guilt and regret to hten and moisture leap to my eyes All I needed to do was reo when I'd kissed Bones, told hi without a trace At the ti hiood job by keepingyears But all it did was make both of us miserable until Bones finally found me

Four years We'd been apart longer than we'd been together, and that was because I turned ht have forgiven ive myself The memory of the one mistake I wished I could undo more than any other made that moisture leave my eyes and spill downdown to land on his hands Kra my flesh to look at the pink wetness with cruel satisfaction

"Cry more of your bloody tears, Hexe They only prove your tie to Satan"

"What they prove is that vampires don't have as much water in their bodies as huave aze

Then he ran his rancid mouth overgrooves in nore hiret to the quiet, white nothingness I'd felt the last tiht beneath surface like it had been before I had to search Pain fro lower down my body took away fros aside I needed to find that faint spark inside Most of one, but not all of it It had to be withinstillness seeuish of le caress Despite the tears still leaking fro this power uish I concentrated on the blissful e caress hinted at, and finally found the re for It was only a tiny speck coo, but even still, it resonated God, I'd forgotten hoonderful that quiet abyss was! It felt like co home Now the tears that fell from my cheeks were full of thethe edges of eternity, death truly was nothing to be afraid of

Kraeneracy and confusion

"Why don't you beg me to stop? Why are you so silent?"

I pulled h to hold on to the power, but still focus on hiedyou like Knohat else you're wrong about? The reason behind these tears"

That inner speck felt like it was hu away at the pain fron of weakness That I've given up, just like you think your fleshYour flesh er than any weapon you can i breath fro? I will see to it that you don't stop"

Then Kra his head to the side He ran his hand over e," heout as a throaty whisper "Do you feel drawn like you did when you followed the line of energy that led you to me in Ohio, in St Louis, in Sioux City, and the farain now?"

He reached out to swipe his hand across rowing concern instead of triu in these," he drew out

"That's right," I said, caressing each word "Power"

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Back when I had the full force of Marie's borrowed abilities in me, I could shed hosts, I had to shed tears with h of the voodoo queen's power left in hosts near and far to rush toon th to try to find ?