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"Salvatore’s going to skin you alive and feed your entrails to the vultures," the tall, bald-headed cur growled as he stumbled behind Caine

"That’s the fourth time you’ve used that same threat, moron," Salvatore snapped "If you can’t think of a new one, then keep your trap shut"

"It’s not a threat, it’s a proun, sick to death of Salvatore Giuliani

"Are you so certain?" he sneered "It see saved his own hide and left you swinging in the breeze"

"You know nothing"

"I know Salvatore had plenty of time and opportunity to warn you that he’d escaped and was having a fine time with his current bitch"

The blond-haired cur who Caine suspected had a sence than the others, snapped his teeth in fury

"You’re wasting your ti will never waver"

Caine snorted Okay, the cur was just as brainless as the others

"Depressingly predictable," he muttered "I’m sick of curs who are content to be the butt-monkeys of the Weres Just because you were made, and not born a olf, doesn’t make you any less worthy It’s your precious Salvatore that has weakened and controlled you toslaves Christ, he’s brought us to the point of extinction to keep control Don’t you care that your brothers are dying?"

The bald-headed cur clenched his beefy hands, but the silver poisoning his body lare at Caine

"That recruitment shit didn’t work on oing to work now"

"But all Salvatore has to do is arrive in Aer puppy?"

"He’s e to knock the idiot upside the head "And what does he do for you beyond keeping you on his leash? If you had any pride you would be seeking aoff the yoke of tyranny The curs are destined to regain the powers that have been denied theh the narrow tunnel, searing away the tainted chill

"A revolution you intend to lead?" the blond cur ed "Someone had to be the Chosen One It’sa servant to the true King of Weres to becoer servant rasped "No thanks"

Caine considered the pleasure of popping a few silver bullets in the cur’s ass, but the sudden stench of rotting flesh was an unpleasant distraction

It wasn’t that he hadn’t known Briggs would be waiting for hi he’d been absolutely certain of

But that didn’t keep his heart froonads

As if todooe cavern that held three giant cages around a jagged pit in the center of the stone floor Three torches were set in brackets on the wall, flooding the space with an eerie flicker of orange light, and revealing an even eerier sight of Briggs standing across the chaly faithful," he drawled as his criaze flicked over the shackled curs "Which, of course, makes theun in the waistband of his jeans, able to taste the potent fear of his prisoners He didn’t blah to send the bravest cur screa as the icy power curled around hiht the curs as you requested"

Wrapped in his clichéd black cloak and looking like he’d just crawled fros waved a dise

"Yes, I’ what you have done Lock the more time than necessary, Caine wrestled the weakened curs into one of the cages and sla the lock slide closed Then with a sick sensation in the pit of his stoesture of humility the pureblood demanded

"What else would you have of me, master?"

"You have perforhtening, Caine stiffened as the power in the cavern thickened, the prickling ice biting into his skin with cruel force