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"What of your father-son bond with Lucifer?" Baden asked with a sneer "I’ your love for hih chatter from you I have two tasks for you One will take ti yours"
Bastard
Hades clapped his hands and called, "Pippin"
An old ard face and hu white robe and chiseled in a stone tablet Never glancing up from his toils, he said, "Yes, sire"
"Tell Baden his first assignments"
"The coin and the siren"
Hades smiled with fondness "You spare no detail, Pippin A true master of description" When he held out his hand, the robed man placed a tiny piece of stone on his pals to me I want it back"
This was an unsavory task? "You want h now, if you like You won’t be laughing later" The stone caught fire and quickly burned to ash; Hades blew in Baden’s direction "You’ll need ti"
He instinctively inhaled A e in his olden coin with Hades’s face on one side and a blank canvas on the other A luxurious country estate A chapel A schedule A picture: a twenty-five-year-old olden curls that resembled a halo
Suddenly Baden knew a myriad of details he’d never been told The male’s name was Aleksander Ciernik, and he hailed fro heroin and woo, Aleksander killed his father and took over the family business His enemies tended to disappear without a trace Not that anyone could concretely connect him to a crime
"You now have the ability to flash to Aleksander," Hades said "You can also flash to me and your home, wherever it happens to be The ability will expand to include any new assign he’d always coveted Today, his excitement was tempered with caution "How did the human obtain your coin?"
"Does it nment?"
Pippin placed a new stone in Hades’s palm More flames crackledmore ashes floated in Baden’s direction As he inhaled, a different i strawberry-blond hair and big blue eyes A siren
Every siren could evoke certain emotions or reactions with her voice, but each familial line had a distinctive specialty Her fairlshe’d died centuries ago Killed by--the details reh her lack of tangibility wouldn’t be a problem for him Despite the bands, he was still able to connect with other spirits
"Bring ue? "Why?" The single word lashed fro you the ie your curiosity Go Now"
Baden opened his mouth to protest only to find himself inside the fortress in Budapest, where his friends lived He was in the entertainment room, to be exact, with Paris, the keeper of Promiscuity, and Sienna, the new keeper of Wrath A Hallround as the two reclined on the couch, eating popcorn and strategizing ways to sneak into the underworld without detection
Amun, the keeper of Secrets, sat at a small round table, with his wife by his side Haidee was petite, her shoulder-length blond hair streaked with pink A silver stud pierced her brow, and the tank top she wore revealed an arm sleeved with names, faces and numbers Clues she’d needed to remind herself of who she was every time she’d died and come back, her me her every ti her to continue herher enemies The last time, the incarnation of Love reanimated her
Baden had once been enemy number one, which hy she’d helped kill hio
The memory rose, one he’d actually lived, and he couldn’t beat it back, as if--because he was both living and dead, body and spirit--he was trapped between present and past He’d resided in ancient Greece with the other Lords A distraught Haidee had co her husband had been injured and he required a doctor