I'm dying, and the man kneeling at my feet thinks he can save me.

​Jude offers me everything: his brilliance, his blood, his perfect submission. He doesn't flinch when I feed. Doesn't run when he learns I’m a five-hundred-year-old vampire-witch hybrid whose own power is tearing me apart from within.

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He wants to serve me. 
Worship me. 
Give me a reason to fight for something beyond survival.

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I should push him away. The last time I let someone this close, their betrayal cost me everything. But his surrender is intoxicating, and I've always had a weakness for beautiful things that offer themselves willingly.

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Pity devotion alone won’t save my life. 

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If I want to survive, I'll have to open old wounds.
Resurrect a bond I severed in blood and rage nearly a decade ago.

It’s time to face the only person who's seen every dark corner of my soul and still calls me his queen.

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And then we'll make them pay.

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They can hunt me. 
They can try to break me.

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But I am Adriana De Crevena, and I will burn this world to the ground before I let anyone take what's mine again.

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