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“Yeah, no,” he grumbles from behind the screen. “I’m not leaving Tan behind.”

How cute and totally deluded.

“Ten minutes,” I insist. “After that, I’ll have Vhex and Remy compete on who can drag you to me first. They’ll split you down the middle to win points.”

“Remy?” The Sentinel croaks. “Whoa. You’re their?—”

“Nine minutes.” I walk toward the door. “And find that healer first. If you really loved your Guide, you’d never let him suffer.”

CHAPTER24

VHEX

She’s calling.

Flames burn my soul, but with my venom doing its thing in my wife, I’m not going up in smoke. For now.

She’s mine.

That spot in my jaw throbs, so fucking eager to drain into her soft body one more time.

I ash the zombie mobs because she told me to, but another command hammers my head with every kill.

Harsh and hissing:

Come.

To.

Me.

I turn to face the magic.

A conga-line of corpses shambles in the same direction as the monster’s call—North.

“I’m not dead yet,” I mutter, jumping to the roof for a better look.

My blood surges, but not to my cock where it could actually do the world some good.

The creepy-ass power tries to force my feet to move.

As if I listen to anyone but her.

I flick both middle fingers up to the mountains and spark two pretty, pink flames on top.

Maybe the bastard down there is my great-great-great-grand-uncle?

Either way.

All Trezzorans past, present, and future can get fucked, especially the devil king who sired us.

Our bloodline is a curse.

And, hey.

My brain works.

I remember that it’s fully in my hands to end this shit.

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