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reaper. If I had—” she shook her head “—well, it

doesn’t matter. You’d already been blooded and

marked. Already fed from his pranic force. I can’t

imagine what that was like.” There was both awe and

a faint tinge of disgust in her tone.

“So what are you saying?” Roxy felt a surge of

panic. “I’m no longer a Daughter of Aset? Because I

fed from a soul reaper’s life force?”

Genuine terror congealed in her gut. Calliope was

cutting her loose. After ten years of security, ten years

of having a family with the Daughters of Aset, she was

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going to be left with nothing. She thought of her mom.

She thought of her foster parents. She thought of

Rhianna, her sister in everything but blood. Every single one of them had cut her loose. They’d fuckingdied

and left her alone.

And now Calliope, her sister in the Daughters of

Aset, her mentor, her friend, was going to leave her

bobbing, a small solitary boat in a roiling sea.

Her breath came in hard gasps, the pain in her heart

a twisting agony. She breathed, breathed, tried to focus

her thoughts and it hit her then, like a bolt of electricity.

In the end, wasn’t everyone alone?

Hadn’t she always stood on her own two feet?

It wasn’t as though the Asetian Guard had given her

security or answers. It had been about doing the job.

Nothing less, nothing more.

She could find another damned job.

A moment later, she felt it, Dagan’s hand in her

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