Black Jewels #02 - Heir to the Shadows by Anne Bishop

Author:Anne Bishop [Bishop, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-03-14T23:00:00+00:00

3 / Hell

Hekatah stared out the window at the sere landscape. Like the other Realms, Hell followed the seasons, but even in summer, it was still a cold, forever-twilight land.

It had gone wrong again. Somehow, it had gone wrong.

She’d counted on the Council’s being able to separate Saetan and Jaenelle. She hadn’t foreseen the girl resisting in such a spectacular, frightening way.

The girl. So much power waiting to be tapped. There had to be a way to reach her, had to be some kind of bait with which to entice her.

As the thought took shape, Hekatah began to smile.

Love. A young man’s ardor pitted against a father’s affection. For all her power, the girl was a softhearted idiot. Torn between her own desires and another’s needs—needs she could safely accommodate since she’d already been opened—she’d comply. Wouldn’t she? If the male was skilled and attractive? After a while, with the help of an addictive aphrodisiac, she’d need the mounting far more than she’d need a father. Rejection would be all the discipline required if she balked at something her beloved wanted. All that dark, lovely power offered to a cock and balls who would, of course, be controlled by Hekatah.

Hekatah nibbled on her thumbnail.

This game required patience. If she was frightened of sexual overtures and repelled all advances…No need to worry about that. Saetan would never tolerate it, would never permit her to become frigid. He strongly believed in sexual pleasure—as strongly as he believed in fidelity. The latter had been a nuisance. The former guaranteed his little darling would be ripe for the picking in a year or two.

Smiling, Hekatah turned away from the window.

At least that gutter son of a whore was good for something.

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