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"Why am I the one paying for his sins? Why don't you direct this vengeance toward my father instead? He is the one who ran the Syndicate!""You think I haven't asked that same question every night for a decade? Why me? Why my family?""I don't know... I didn't choose to be born an Ashford!""Look at me, Obi! My parents are rotting in the ground because of Gideon. My younger siblings were executed while I was forced to serve as a foot soldier for the Black Eagle, treated like a dog in the Ashfang Dominion. Your father told me that power is the only truth—that the strong do as they wish and the weak suffer what they must. Now, I have the power. Take off that silk. Get on the bed.""Please... don't do this. I’ve never... nobody has ever touched me. Please, Cassius!""You're begging? I spent ten years begging! Every time Gideon or Draven used me as a punching bag, I begged. And you know what they said? They said a slave has no right to words. You aren't a Duke's son anymore. You’re my pro

Obi's looking like a corpse again, isn't he? He's barely breathing over there in the corner of the Hollow Pit.""I told you, the kid was born a runt. Gideon’s bad blood. He’s shivering like he’s in the arctic, but the cell is like a furnace tonight. I'll give him forty-eight hours, max.""Think the Sire wants him dead? He’s been down twice this week. If the lungs don't give out, the infection will.""If Cassius has any sense, he’ll put a bullet in the Ashford boy’s head and end the misery. It’s a waste of a cell. My family spent ten years in the gutter because of the Black Eagle, but even I feel sick looking at that skeletal thing. He’s a walking ghost.""Yeah, well, ghosts don't pay debts. Let him rot. It’s more than the Ashfords gave our people when the Yellow Teeth were running the streets. Let’s get a drink; the runt isn't going anywhere but the morgue.""Go ahead, Malakai! Cut me! You’re still a dog in a suit! I’m Draven Ashford! I’ll burn this city with you inside it! AHHHH!""K

"I am not letting him wear this filth, Selah. It’s a death sentence for his dignity. Look at this—it’s nothing but thin lace and shame! Obi is a man, not a toy for the Shadowfang Syndicate!""He’s whatever the Sire says he is now, Amira. You think the Black Eagle showed us mercy when we were the ones in the dirt? Put it on him or I’ll tell Malakai you’re obstructing Syndicate business. You know how he handles 'obstructions'.""Obi is sick! He has a fever! How can you stand there and talk about orders when he can barely lift his head?""Tell him to find his strength, then. Because if he’s naked when Cassius walks in, it won't be the fever that kills him. That’s what all of us had to do to survive Gideon’s reign—we learned to serve. Now it's his turn.""You were the Duke's favorite once, Selah. You of all people should know he had nothing to do with his father's cruelty!""And yet, I was the one covered in soot while he was the one in silk. Now the silk is gone. Make sure he's ready. Th