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"We could If given the chance, could you personally take Omortout?"

Sabine's eyes went cold "In a heartbeat" She shs, securing thearters Then she covered much of the hose icked steel-toed boots that cli with the rage demons?"

Sabine shook her head "Omort would kill us before we even had a chance How quickly we forget his power" Over her short skirt, she draped a belt hung with a dozen blue-gold tassels "Besides, if we united with them, we'd have to turn around and kill them" When Lanthe raised her brows, Sabine said, "Or we'd be out a castle And I'"

"Not even with your husband?"

There was that word again She hesitated, then said, "Think of what Rydstrom would demand from us- obedience, lawfulness Yes, it would be better than with Omort But it couldn't be better than if we ruled"

"That's true" Lanthe rose to head back to her rooht Maybe they have a plan of their own"

"I'll see what I can find out" After Lanthe left, Sabine finished at the dresser, drawing her face paint in blurred streaks of black and gray that covered her eyes and fanned out toward her teh to tempt him from his certain ire? The mirror said yes

But then she had the ht More of an iave a nervous laugh, glancing around the roo hie toward her, Rydstro separated from her like this wasn't natural-it went contrary to his deered to have his mark on her, his scent on her skin He needed to run his horns all over her

His fists clenched Damn it, ill she return to me?

A male materialized in his cell Lothaire Kill

"Don't look at me like you'll rip lish "I can aid your

escape" He held up a key in one hand and a pack in the other "Your freedom And supplies I can trace you to Grave Realm, but not off-plane"

"Why aid a from you You'd have to make a vow to me"

"A vow to do what?"

Lothaire said, "When I ask you for soive it to me"

-Fuck-off"

"Think about it Your options are limited at present"

They were And in his current state, Rydstro that Lothaire could ask for that would be worse than what he'd forfeit if he re­dom, and eventually his life "Why help me now?"

"Because at thisher way here to drug you with an aphrodisiac And that won't do"

"Not by Sabine's leave?"

"I would seriously doubt that"