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Her blood ran ice-cold, even as her earlier suspicion that Jiana was a gifted actress died a quick death—arational “Please tell me he’s not there”
Dmitri touched her hair, the caress unexpectedly tender “No”
“Was he always so—” She sed the term she wanted to use at the hollow blankness of Jiana’s eyes
“Aed in ways he shouldn’t have been when he was Made”
Jiana gave a cracked laugh “He went insane, D back thick black hair streaked with fine threads of brown and red, thea sudden, violent anger “Did you know that, hunter? A s the transformation”
Like every hunter, Honor had heard the rumors, but this was the first time it had been confirels would have elielic race didn’t hold power because they played nice
Jiana’s anger faded as fast as it had awakened, a poignant pain carving deep grooves around those lush lips “A taint He was a hundred years old before he began to show the first signs, two hundred before I could no longer deny thely unaware that her robe was gaping open at the top to expose the inner curves of her brsts, high and taut “By the ti could be done I dedicatedhis excesses so they wouldn’t lead to execution”
To Honor’s surprise, D the wo, fine-boned hands in his “He is your son You protected hi to continue to do it”
A true psychopath, Honor thought, re her in the stomach
“You shouldn’t havedown her back in ayou here to hurt you” His lips along her jaw, over her throat “So be an obedient pet and do as you’re told”
She’d bitten his ear instead, hard enough to almost tear off a chunk He’d punched her so violently for that, she’d blacked outand woken to find herself bleeding
“It’s the h the horrific memory, her tone a plea “That’s what drives him”
Honor wasn’t so sure Aent, a man who—as Des rather than atteht them Not only that, but he’d consciously nurtured the sickness in others
“He was spoken to when his leanings becaentler than Honor had ever heard it— “given both warning and an offer of assistance He chose to walk away”
Jiana’s lower lip tre into Dmitri’s arms, her cries so primal her entire frame shook as if her bones would fall to pieces Honor’s own heart ached, her eyes burning in maternal sympathy