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Xerxes hesitated only a naled his private bartender

Baden strode to the shadowed corner illued on a couch and one on a recliner, each twittering excitedly when he ca Fraser!"

"I know Okay, okay, you talked me into it I’ll have your Scottish babies"

"Take off your shirt Or would you prefer I rip it off you?"

Baden expected his lust to return full force These women offered the sex he wanted The sex he needed Easy and uncomplicated Release and relief Except, they weren’t Katarina, and his body remained unaffected

He scowled The identity of his lover shouldn’tthe beast Craving a specific woave her the power

"Leave," Xerxes told the wo stopped as the three beat feet Baden sank into the recliner, leaving the backless couch for the Sent Ones More rooave you the wreaths?" Bjorn asked "Hades or Lucifer?"

Were they the only two immortals with the power to use them? "Hades"

"So you are under his control"

"Yes" The adritted, but honesty was essential Sent Ones would taste a lie "I can’t re I’ain Only this ti nowhere "How do they work?" Baden asked

Bjorn tilted his head to the side "Think of it this way If you take a seed frorows into a tree that produces fruit of its own They are different, but they are the sawhat? The wreaths were a seed, and the roots were now firmly planted inside him? "I have visions of another life The wreaths used to be a persona creature"

"You’re right," Xerxes said "The wreaths were created froed the bands from ashes that would forever contain his essence"

What The Hell?

Destruction was Hades? The memories were Hades’s?

No, no Is suddenlyto kill hi his mind, almost as if he cared for Baden--because he cared for hiaged to her The beast quieted in Hades’s presence--because he wanted what Hades wanted

Nothing to say? he snarled The beast had known the truth The beast had always known