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"Bound to two, actually Anwyn and Daegan" Brian glanced toward Daegan and the fe over Gideon He'd been coaxed or compelled to stretch out on the floor Cai noticed Anwyn had opened her wrist and put it to his mouth Her other hand was on his face, and her profile orried Angry

"He's pretty much the most notorious vampire killer there is fro now?"

"It is a complicated story, and not mine to tell," Brian said firmly "But it's why he and his lord are here They have a vast repository of knowledge about confronting vaet blood, I suggest you talk to them"

"I won't be talking to Gideon Green, ever," Cai said bluntly Lord Daegan, sitting on his heels, cocked his head and looked his way Yeah, with va unnoted Fuck, he was a creepy-looking bastard Those dark eyes that had seemed almost too dark to be real now had crimson sparks in them and way too little whites

Cai blinked, and they were siain, steady and cold upon him Yeah, he'd resu his"He killed the only friend I ever had If he coain, I'll finish the job"

"Good luck with that Bigger dicks than you have tried"

With those words and a rasping cough, Gideon struggled to a sitting position, no ht dark blue eyes were deep set in a strong faceand familiar Which was odd, because Cai knew the ht He'd only ever seen hinize eye color

The y, a honed hunter, thanks to the additional powers being a servant gave hi centuries old

"Without your Master, you'd be dead," Cai sneered at him

"I'e of yours You would have done better to get a little closer, giveberserker" Gideon's gaze locked with his "Which I expect is the type of thing Brian wanted us to go over with you Subtlety when strength isn't enough"

Cai laughed He didn't care that it hurt, or that it sounded like the bark of a wounded runt, he started to get to his feet Godda to stand

Though Rand had to help, he ed it, and pushed a pace away so he could stand on his own Rand stayed close enough to be a prop, if Cai needed it He didn't Not for this

"I lived a hundred years a day I spent with theuttortured in ways you wouldn't have survived, as a mortal or a servant I know, because I saw the huht to the camp die, while I continued to survive Do you really think there's anything you can tell me about that environment I don't already know?"

He are a silence had fallen on the roo, didn't look anywhere but in that male's face If he couldn't kill this asshole, he'd see if there was a scrap of conscience in him that Cai could shred

"And when I reached the end of what I could bear, there was only one thing that kept ht me how to survive Eventually, he turned est time"

He'd accused Lodell of figuring out the worst way yet to torture hiave Goddard and his crew a bigger range of ways to hurt hiiven you the way to survive, and win You've proven you're too goddamn stubborn andto win this fight, boy"

"He left the Trads before I did When I was finally free, I saw him a few tio, I went looking for hiain I was told he'd been decapitated in an alley He died next to a Duarbage"

Cai paused, his jaw flexing "I tracked you, got alh to take you But then you disappeared Otherwise, you would have been dead I never thought to look for you here"

Gideon was another, like Graham, on his list to kill Cai's voice was hoarse, his body shaking He really needed to tiues better "He wasa friend, in a place where no one offered friendship, because it would expose you to weakness But he did He cared for me And you killed him like he was an enemy"

Some distant part of him understood all the conflicts and hypocrisy in his little speech He hiroup of them had done to him He didn't feel much more warmly toward the type of vampires in this room, for the reasons he'd told Lyssa If he'd soht have joined the ranks of those like Gideon Green, to destroy as many of them as he could

But he'd met Lodell And Lodell had showed him that not all vampires, not all Trads, were the same

Gideon's expression had turned to stone Not in rejection of Cai's words, but as if he'd needed to hold himself still to absorb the impact of the words "I'h voice "I becah school sweetheart right in front of ured out one vaet there, and I didn't get over it until I met her And him"