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had become brutal when he didn’t need to be

Just weeks ago, he had been hired to clean out a group of bandits

plaguing the road to the marketplace When he’d been surrounded by

theone a little crazy He killed all thirty, and only just held

off killing the fees

were getting worse He wouldn’t be able to cover them for much

longer If they were forced to try to put him down, many people he

cared about would die

Cianslowly snuffed

out, but Beck feared he would go out in a blaze of blood and death

Dante was under strict instructions to use vay to kill

him if necessary, but he doubted his cousin would be able to do it

Meg was the answer to all his problems He bowed formally to the

wo to run, yet He

would have to deal with that eventually He’d felt a small piece of her