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Salvatore’s heat blasted through the park, his power a tangible force

"Being one of the walking dead has obviously putrefied your brain You will never sit onin your future is a long overdue grave"

"Such brave talk," Briggs rasped

"I’ behind illusions"

"Be thankful you haven’t yet faced me in the flesh You would be dead" A sneer curled the pureblood’sbefore you"

Salvatore stiffened

Dio His suspicions had been right

"You killed Mackenzie?"

"Are you just now figuring that out?" Briggs ht you worthy of being king?"

Salvatore ignored the insult, his thoughts churning He was playing a deadly gaoals

"Why did you kill hier any use to your s was the true danger "Have you considered ill happen to you once you’ve served your purpose?"

"I already knowto you? You’re a fool, Briggs You’ll be betrayed, just like Mackenzie"

The chill thickened and with a lift of his hands, Briggs struck out, sla"

Salvatore reeled fronored the broken ribs and squared his shoulders He’d touched a nerve Briggs could brag and boast all he wanted, but underneath he feared that he was just more useless fodder

"I know that a de in return," he ruthlessly pressed "And that the true cost is always shrouded in lies until it’s too late"

A tick jerked beneath one sunken eye, but Briggs s superiority that always set Salvatore’s teeth on edge

There was rooant bastard in the pack

And he was it

"Don’t tell s scoffed "I’reed has conde the Weres It’s my fate to be their savior"

"Very noble, but evil can’t create, it can only destroy"

That disturbing laugh once again echoed through the e in horror Salvatore wished he could join thes

Beyond the cold, beyond the hideous sic was a sense of twisted perversion

As if the grave still clais taunted

Salvatore shuddered, wondering if there was anything of the Were left inside the decaying shell

"Have you ever considered that our troubles began with Mackenzie?" He forced hiaze "His treachery condealomania has only fueled our downfall You’re like rot that has to be cut away before it can spread further" He didn’t bother to hide his griid power once again flared out, driving Salvatore to his knees Gri was punctured, but he’d rather be skinned alive than be on his knees before this abo the Weres comes from your tainted blood Mackenzie should have killed you the moment your claiaze It was obvious that the mysterious des to keep Salvatore off the throne But why? Was there so about him that threatened the creature?

"Is that what your puppet s snorted "Who doesn’t?"

Good point Salvatore had never bothered to win friends and influence people He didn’t doubt there was a long line of demons anted his head on a platter But this was ular run-of-the-mill death wish This was an attack on the entire Were nation

"What does s, one arm wrapped around his injured chest "And why use you as a flunky, instead of killing s made a dismissive motion, but Salvatore sensed the dark thread of doubt that flowed through the Were Soe At least he intended to use it once he could find the da more than a mistake that will soon be corrected"