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"The only way to help me is to tell me where Katarina has been taken"

Galen’s smile was cold "That, I can’t do Not because I don’t want to Taliyah isn’t sending me updates"

He scrubbed a hand over his face This was his fault, not Galen’s Katarina had wanted to be an equal with her man, as any sane person would, while he’d expected her to cave to his desires As if her desires were so to see his own stupidity She was his most precious treasure Why would he treat her--any part of her--with anything other than reverence?

"Go away," he muttered "I hate you, but I don’t want to hurt you"

"You don’t hate ht erupted behind Galen, who turned swiftly, withdrawing a dagger from the sheath at his waist Baden was at his side a split second later, his own trusty daggers in hand But it was Keeley who appeared, not an ene bra-and-panty set and had rollers in her hair Had she forgotten her clothing? This wouldn’t be the first tiuys" She smiled and waved as if they’d buot you two even existed, so how did I--"

"Because of me," Galen interrupted "I’ve made sure to send you daily reht Taliyah left her with the Sent Ones, thought it’d be funny to send Baden on a wild-goose chase while Katarina here he assumed she wasn’t, but the warriors called ency, right?" Keeley flashed to his broken nightstand and with a wave of her hand, fixed it "I’inally horrible has happened, but we’ll overcoether Because we’re family and that’s what families do Or so I’ve been told by Torin"

Destruction clawed at Baden’s skull

"If the Sent Ones harle hair on Katarina’s head" They would be dead by sunrise

"There’s a vein throbbing in your forehead," Keeley re a stroke? Or did I not inally horrible?"

"Keeley" Galen’s ht The ee for her soul and--"

"What!" Baden roared Such a bargain would coh a cost, no matter how much he wanted her to live forever She would most likely become Lucifer’s slave, the way Baden was Hades’s slave The vile deeds such an evil male would order her to do

"Will no one allow me to finish?" Strands of her hair lifted with a breeze he couldn’t feel