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Caine hadn’t been feared aood reason He could be cold, cunning, and calculating He could also be brutal when the occasion deazed down at the fragile woht, he was kneeling in front of her, reaching to grab her chilled fingers

"Who?" he rasped "Who will be mad?"

"He’ll kill you"

"Are you a prisoner?" he demanded She ducked her head, and he hooked a thuaze "Look at ainst your will?"

"He won’t let me out"

"Tell me who it is"

A shadow crossed her face "I’s?"

"The dead Were? No" A shtened of s was the sort of nightmarish creature that would terrify any dehtened?"

She shrugged "He shouldn’t have asked if he didn’t want to know"

"Knohat?"

"His future" She pointed toward one of the swirling glyphs "There"

Caine frowned in confusion "What is it?"

The pale green eyes stabbed hiaze As if she could see into his very soul

"Death"

"Christ"

Caine jerked in shock Dammit For decades he allowed himself to be blinded by a vision that his rational brain told hi less than a s’s claiave him the power to reveal the future was beyond crazy

After all, most of the known prophets were under the control of the Oracles, and they possessed only randoe of various possibilities or pivotal events, but not a detailed revelation for an individual

And nohen he’d at last accepted that he’d been a total putz to fall for Briggs’s scheme, he was confronted by the most extraordinary of all creatures

"You’re a seer," he breathed

She shook her head "I don’t see I drealyphs "I drea her cheek "Did you dreareen eyes were abruptly veiled with a disturbing white as she gazed blindly at the wall over his shoulder

"Your blood will run pure"

Caine didn’t feel elation at the soft words In fact, the chill that had been snaking up and down his spine now spread to lodge deep in his gut

"You’re certain?"

She placed her hand flat on the stone floor, her eyes still clouded "Here"

"I don’t understand"

"Your blood So"It’s everywhere"

"Shit" Surging to his feet, he yanked her upright, his instincts on full alert "We have to get out of here"

With a blink, her eyes cleared, revealing a poignant sadness that shook hio"

"I don’t intend to ask his per her toward the crack that led to the outer cavern There had to be a way out of the dao"

He onlyin her heels Literally

"I can’t"

She was tiny, but she possessed all the strength of a pureblood Snarling in frustration, Caine turned to glare at her

"Can’t or won’t?"

"Can’t," she said, her expression composed "I’m tied to these caves until he’s banished"

Well, of course she was Hell would freeze over before luck was on his side