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"I'll protect it forever, just as you'll protect mine"
"You saying you love me?"
"Madly I already knew it theafter, which is why I was so confounded byinto his eyes "We really are going to find Mina?"
"We'll storm hell if we have to" He took Mirceo's hand in his We fit "I will not let you down"
"What if Harea finds her?"
"Then he had better hope she can't lay hands on a sword Somehow, someway, this family will best him a second time"
Mirceo gave a decisive nod His expression grew focused and intent "Then let's get started, old man"
Cas gazed down at the odsdamned shadow, vampire"
Mirceo's lips curved "Eternally, demon"
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A spellbinding I author Kresley Cole!
The terrifying king of hell
As a boy, Abyssian "Sian" Infernas had his heart shattered by a treacherous fey beauty who died before he could exact vengeance Millennia later, a curse has transformed him into a demonic monster--just as she's been reincarnated Sian captures the delicate but bold fe her back to hell
Meets his match
Princess Calliope "Lila" Barbot's people have hated and feared Abyssian and his alliance of monsters for eons When the beastly dee for betrayals she can't re down the wicked beast for good
Can two adversaries share one happily-ever-after?
As Lila turns hell inside out, the all-powerful Sian finds his for her In turn, Lila reluctantly responds to the beast's cleverness and gruff vulnerability But when truths from a far distant past are revealed, can their tenuous bond withstand ages of deceit, a curse, and a loo supernatural war?
PROLOGUE
"Listen well to the storyteller, and you'll hear such a tale," Nix the Ever-Knowing said to her sister Regin as they sat before the fire in their temporary abode "Once upon a time, two females entered an enchanted forest on opposite ends of the woods One was a lovely and truehea
rted fairy princess, born an old soul, with perhaps a bit of a temper The other was a temptress called the dame of fire, known to be sensual and devious, with perhaps a lack of mercy
"The princess was fleeing a baneblood archer who'd vowed to wipe out the entire fey royal line The princess wanted only to live
"The da a cowardly ruler who'd jeopardized all of his people The dame wanted only to kill
"During the princess's journey, sheValkyrie who betrayed her Next the princess met two sorceresses They sent her on the adventure of a lifetie neorld, because they knew that not all bad is bad
"Lastly the princessof beasts with two faces He could keep her safe from the archer, but first the fairy princess would have to become the beast's bride
"On the opposite end of the woods, the danized and rewarded her bravery
"Next she encountered a wise dragon who adrant her one wish
"Lastly she , who had offered her his hand in e And everyone knows the best way to beco
"The dame and the princess wouldso violently that even hell tree froht? The storyteller's companion, one of her Valkyrie sisters, blinked in astonishment at such a tale, then said"
"Uh, Nix, I just asked if you wanted to go hunt so how et After the destruction of the Valkyries' ho even faster than before "And why are you calling yourself 'the storyteller' and narrating our conversation?"
Nix smiled vacantly "The storyteller replied: 'Because I a theof this fairy tale'"
FITFO Figure it the fuck out
--CALLIOPE "LILA" BARBOT, PRINCESS OF THE SYLVAN FEY LINE
My sire was the devil, and my dam was darkness eht
--ABYSSIAN "SIAN" INFERNAS, KING OF PANDEMONIA AND ALL HELLS,