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“The reason you gave for helping me was that my dual bloodline meant I’d live for centuries Two thousand years Maybe -lived races, but it’s a very long time compared to everyone else” She shifted in her seat “That didn’t haveall around Terreille, working in Red Moon houses and honing ht be a decade ormen who counted me as their first experience with sex turn into oldmoment in my life”
She orking up to so
“These weeks I’ve spent with the Dea al Mon” Surreal sighed “Hell’s fire, Sadi I was having breakfast onewith Grandmammy Teele, and I realized she was an old woman Then I looked at Gabrielle—a beautiful, vibrant Queen in her late twenties—and I knew the day would coher and see an old wo his land, his people, and his Queen Loving his wife and son They aren’t temporary people in my life They’re the other side of row old I’ll see them die And even if they becoer be a part of my life”
There was a lu Daemon’s throat He sed it before he could speak “What’s your point?”
“The visit withto do with the next few decades of my life”
He raised an eyebrow as a silent question
“I’ to work for you”
He wasn’t sure what he’d expected, but it wasn’t this “Why?”
“Because you don’t have time to waste,” Surreal said quietly
The truth of those words jabbed his heart
“Daeot, at best, a few decades to be with the love of your life Whether you adlass inside your head, and every day that ends is one lass”
“Don’t,” he whispered
“You don’t have tiate minor problems reported by Province Queens or District Queens—or tiame Vulchera tried to play” She smiled coldly “For a people who keep thely well informed when they choose to be So I did hear about the party at Lady Rhea’s country house and how Vulchera foolishly tried to ensnare the Warlord Prince of Dhemlan in a bit of sexual blackmail”
Did you also hear how the High Lord of Hell killed her?“What are you proposing?”
“I’ fierce and feral flashed in those gold-green eyes “A second-in-couard your back”
They didn’t speak the name They didn’t need to
“I figure I’ll work from the town house in Amdarh at least half the time”
“Missed being in a city?” Daemon asked mildly
“Hell’s fire, yes Taking a bath under a canopy of leafy vines is ro falls off a leaf and into the bathwater”