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“I will not” He ju a current of air They soared through the sky, heading toward the plethora of suns currently setting in the distance
“I proh at you more than a little”
“Now you try my patience”
Locks of pale hair whipped over his face as she snuggled closer “You’re so obsessed with me On a scale of one to ten, you rate me a twelve”
“And you rate me a zero”
“Hardly I give you at least two points for your good taste in goddesses”
He pursed his lips “I was in the bar the day you ht past me”
“Did you have these horns back then?” Shemotion “Because meow”
Had he been walking rather than flying, he ht have stumbled; her words knocked him for a loop “You like my horns?” After a reluctant pause, he added, “They aren’t too beastly?”
Leering at hiht amount”
His heart stuttered, his body once again at ith his e of desire to the best of his ability, resolved to resist her—for now First he needed to digest everything he’d learned about this woman He must determine whether she’d spoken true or lied about McCadden’s near-death, and how he felt about it, whatever the answer At the very least, Viola wasn’t the merciless seductress he’d once considered her Mostly, he should figure out how to proceed with her Did he owe her any kind of punish anymore
The palace appeared on the horizon He propelled his mind in a different direction “Now that we’ve called a tereed to a partnership, we should devise our plan of attack against the other Forsaken”
“No worries I’ve already worked up the perfect sche it to you when you cuffed oddess of the Afterlife, right? I’m able to remove more than a lifeforce I can reach inside anyone and pluck out their spiritual heart, the container of the lifeforce Neither a body nor a spirit can exist without it I’ll be honest, though I’ve never tried it on a deathless being, because I’ve never faced a deathless being”
He blinked at her creativity Knowing she could have attempted this on hiht her to be He had much more to consider than he’d realized
“We’ll try it,” he said, surprising himself He—A shadow shifted inside the palace, near ain the throne room