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The ceiling shook, gest you play nice, wife" Alek attempted to scoot closer to her, but the chain stopped him "Soon I’ll use the coin to dethrone Hades and take his place in the underworld I’ll be a king"

A king Of the underworld Aka, of evil On paper, it was actually the perfect job for hidorant et it?"

He hesitated only a ift from my mother"

"You have a mother? Aw, is she proud of her murderous little sociopath?"

"She’s dead I blaot his in the end I ue, you won’t speak of s barked, but re evil overlords She’d noticed the winged devil had lacked one

"Isthe wall to press her hands against the cold stone There had to be a way out Not that she doubted her safety But the wos

"After the massacre at the chapel, I sent Do as you treat me with the deference I deserve"

This This would have become her life if Baden hadn’t showed up Threats and coercion She owed the warrior a debt of gratitude

She ed to extract an already loosened stone

"You think to leave me?" Alek rattled the chain as he tried to stand "No You will stay Do you hear me? You will stay!"

She turned and lobbed the stone at hiasp His eyesthey were lit up with sparks of red

Baden was right Alek wasn’t human

Hoas that possible? How had she not known?

"When I’ of Hades’s realm," Alek said, his tone low and silky now, "you will be my queen Don’t you want to be my queen, princezná?"

"I’d rather be a servant for a good king than the queen of a bad one"

"Soyes?"

"Hard no" But

Katarina drew in a breath, slowly released it Right now, she was part of Baden’s world He ad It was tio on an information hunt