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“One day you will have vengeance, little half-blood. You will stand upon a wasteland littered with your dead kin and you will be free.”
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“I could never run from the half of me that danced in the dark.”

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You're not going to fight me, Captain. This is the right call. You know it."
She marched me off the bridge and into the brilliant white passageway. "You think I'm just going to trust you'll let me go?" I asked, getting a painful nudge in the back.
"You don't have a choice." She was right about that. "Relax. I got your back, Cale."
"You've got a pistol in my back is what you've got."
"Just like old times."
Trust her? Well, shit.

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“Oh, you're good."
Akil narrowed his eyes. "You must have me confused with another sociopathic demon.”

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“You are capable of great things, he said with conviction. If by great things, he meant complete destruction, then yes, it would seem so.”

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“Humans are passionate in all they do, even should they wish to do nothing. They battle, they rage, they kill, they love, they are capable of mercy in the most impossible of circumstances, and they are monstrous.”

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Get off that damn chair and pull yourself together. You're supposed to be an ageless creature of chaos and all I'm getting right now is sulking city boy.

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“Fire is ever the optimist.”

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“But if you cross me again Akil, so-help-me, I'll find a way to kill you this time."
His eyes lit up at the prospect, as though he'd accepted a challenge I didn't even know I'd laid down. "I'd expect nothing less."
Demons; only they can get a cheap thrill from a death threat.”

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“I considered how the princes were masters of manipulation and wondered if Ahkeel knew exactly how this would end and if I'd survive his game.”

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“I shook my head. Akil was right about one thing. Stefan would never understand. He spent his life killing demons. He had it simple. I'd spent my life among them. I might despise the majority of them, but I knew them. They were family. Twisted, bitter, dangerous, slippery, back-stabbing, but family all the same.”

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“What were you keeping me for, if not to use against your enemies?" His gaze softened. "Once, yes. Now I find myself in the alarming situation of fearing I may lose you again and caring.”

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“Akil's sexy-as-sin picture could be plastered all over the tabloids. He wouldn't like that. His halo would slip in the eyes of the Boston public. Never mind that his tarnished halo hung on devil horns.”

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“You'd best teach me how to raise hell because we're going to need it.”

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“One day you will have vengeance, little half-blood. You will stand upon a wasteland littered with your dead kin and you will be free.”

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“Hell, even Akil had sent demon-nasties after me in the past, although he appeared to have resolved his homicidal tendencies since I'd literally sucked the life out of him.”

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“Oh to let go of it all ... The pain, the anguish, the shame and disgust ... Just let it all go. Embrace chaos.”

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“So fuck off, netherworld. The demons can't have me. Akil can't have me. Nobody gets to tie me up and chain me down. Not anymore.”

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“I need to feel you as a man does a woman. You have no idea what it costs me to say these things to you. You cannot fathom what it means. I need you. I lay the truth before you. Would you turn me away? Right here and now, Muse, I am but a man.”

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Surely the Prince of Greed and the Mother of Destruction can kick some demon-ass back to the netherworld. It might mess up your street-cred, but I'm sure an ego the size of yours can take it. Once we've averted disaster, you can go back to being the slippery, back-stabbing son-of-a-bitch I know so well.

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“You are not yet grown. But you, little half-blood, will be magnificent.”

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“Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I'll bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game.”

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“I'm beginning to appreciate getting answers out of Akil is like pushing water up hill.Â The second you think you have him, he slips around behind you, and the answers become questions all over again.”

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“Besides, what is human consciousness if not a data stream? A means for human beings to harvest information and interpret the world around them?”

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“I'd seen this movie. This was the part where the dinosaurs ate the tourists.”

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“This where you bring all your girls before you bury them in the woods?”

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“I sat across the table from him and watched as he popped open the lid. "I gather you like ice cream?" An eyebrow twitched comically. "Snow demon." He shrugged.”

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“And shined the flashlight up”

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“All because I wanted a hug. Jeez, what kind of attention-starved female am I?”

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How do you stop yourself from loving someone even when you know they're incapable of loving you back?

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“I had no idea why a small swarm of spiders had decided to latch onto me, but as long as we were on friendly terms, I was happy to have them tag along.”

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“Bent down and plucked the fae's sword free of the fleshy mess that had once been his hand. Mental note: Don't mess with the spiders.”

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“I dragged my beaten body onto my feet, spat blood into the mangled dirt, and lifted my head to Mammon. "Do not let my human half beguile you." I echoed his words, almost to the letter.”

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“So this was how it was going to be: use the half-blood for her peculiar party tricks. I should have expected it. I'd been used to it most of my life. Why should things change now?”

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He had no right to look so accommodating when I knew the sort of man he really was; the sort who sacrificed his own son in the name of science, the sort who used his daughter to entrap a Prince of Hell. I'd known demons more human than Adam Harper.

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“I'd summoned enough of my element from beyond the veil to ignite a near-nuclear reaction and then snuffed it out instead of unleashing it. The fact that I was still alive was a miracle, and I suspected it was something to do with PC34. I'd slapped my demon right back down, shoved her in a box, and stuffed her away in some dark mental hiding place. When she came back she was going to be pissed.”

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You realize, half-bloods are impossible. A human body shouldn't be able to contain an elemental demon. It's physically and mentally impossible. Something about how you and your demon are tied together goes beyond scientific explanation. You shouldn't exist. It's a wonder you're not a jabbering lunatic.

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“Well, it beat being tied to a bed and drugged up to the eyeballs.”

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“The air I dragged through my teeth strummed with frequencies beyond human interpretation. Power. Chaos. Home.”

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Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.

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Some had yet to be touched, and I had to fight the urge to upset the precise design just for fun.

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“What kind of fairytale ends with the Prince trying to flay the Princess?" "Is that what you are? A Princess?" Laughter danced with the light in his eyes. "Go to hell." He pursed his lips then worked them together as though fighting his own words. "I wasn't aware the fairytale was over." He snorted a laugh. I crossed my arms and shot him a look. "You're in denial." "Denial? I'm the Prince of Greed. I don't recognize denial." "I noticed.”

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“There was only so much damage control I could do, and no amount of bull crap about escaped animals from the zoo was going to mask my very public display of power.”