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"Do you really believe that?"

"Yes I thinkI think that not everyone is out to get us or to use us" When Sabine onlynoise and kept her head in her hands, Lanthe added, "Granted, every being we've come into contact with in the last five hundred years has, without fail, tried to screw us over I don't know, though Maybe the deuy What if he's one in a million? What if he would take back the hurt if he could?"

Sabine peered up "One in a ht not have been coht with her actions He had warned her about hoould lose control Still, hoas she supposed to knoould happen? She'd never done anything with a dein," she admitted

"Oh, Abie, no"

Maybe I shouldn't have head'butted him, or slapped him, or"And I left instructions for hiotten away froht not be too late to take it b-"

Without warning, the door to her chamber opened

Omort entered "Leave us," he told Lanthe "At once!"

She had no choice but to hurry out, casting Sabine a fearful expression before she left theht, apprehensive to be anywhere near him after that earlier show of power

He paced the roo "Your covenantbroke" When he faced her, his brows drew together "I feared you would enjoy it With him"

"Do I look like I enjoyed that?"

"I aain"

She exhaled with inant"

"The demon's seal is no more?" When she hesitantly nodded, he said, "Then another female can breed with him"

As Rydstro forth his seed the first time But now that that seal had been broken, Rydstro­nate other females

"You will not return to him," Omort said "Lanthe or Hettiah will take over your duties-once she has healed"

"Hettiah shouldn't be alive right now She alot both of us killed"

"She has been punished accordingly"

"Why would Hettiah do this with the deet her with child now, but "The heir has to bethat out loud shook her I'm the true queen of this castle And he's azed away "The child only has to be of his blood"

"The rage deht havemisspoken about the prophecy

The boy need only be born from him"

Misspoken? "What exactly do you know about hoill unlock the well?"

Omort studied her face with those eerie yellow eyes "I want to trust you I need to These hours have been agonizing to ether, but you tell "

"I didn't want to put undue pressure on you" He twisted his ring Lying to me "The fact is that Ryd-strom's son will be sacrificed"

"What did you say?"

"His firstborn child will be given to the well-"

"You mean cast into it?" She wove an illusion over