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"Tonya is not just another imp if she’s related to Troy She’s royalty Which er"

Tonya batted her annoyingly long lashes "I’uests Only the custoed "Suit yourself"

Harley settled back in the leather seat "He always does"

Briggs renched violently froroaned, the pain of his wounds thundering through his stiff body

Da to pay for every second of his suffering

With interest

For a e of Salvatore on his knees before hied for e pull of hishis heart, Briggs tumbled off the narrow cot that was set in the back of a bleak cave

He paused long enough to throw cold water on his face from a ceramic pitcher and pull a clean cloak fro the cave to enter the tunnel that led through the vast catacoinally burrowed beneath the graveyard that was attached to the abandoned Victorian church outside of Chicago Or even who had kept the ancient cataco the years He had been led here only a feeeks ago by the ruthless call of his master

Until that h the fors had stolen after it became obvious Salvatore Giuliani was destined to beco directly into hishis blood oath to the bastard

Then, without warning, the des leave behind his very comfortable lair in Kansas City to squat in the barren caves like a forgotten hermit Even worse, the inner chamber that had once been an altar to the dark lord allowed the barriers between di ago, but even he had to shudder at the throat-clogging evil that crawled through the air

He h the tunnels that headed ever lower, struck as always, by the smoothly polished stones beneath his feet that were unmarred by so much as a speck of dust or stray cobweb

Not even ver the caves that had once been prisons for immortals, with their silver chains and walls lined with lead, Briggs entered the inner cha stench of human blood

More than one sacrifice had been otten altar in the middle of the floor

And very soon there would be one h this one wouldn’t include worthless huh to co to heal

Als forced hiold brazier flared to life next to hiid blast filled the chaan to shimmer with a warped rip in the fabric that held the worlds apart, the odor of rotting flesh spilling into the cavern

"Master," he said "You have need of s, just as your father before you," the hollow voice echoed through the cavern, biting into Briggs’s flesh

Father Briggs curled his lips

A purebloods, the pack superseded any family connection Cubs were kept in the same lair and fiercely protected by all the adults The concept of two parents and siblings was a hus, however, had barely been out of puberty when the king had taken him aside to clai with pride He’d suspected even as a cub that he was destined for greatness

It was only after the birth of Salvatore and his father’s growing madness that he realized he would have to takehis soul

"I have done all you requested"

"And did I request that you interfere with Giuliani?"