When Elin sees Thane stalking through the princess's compound during one of his break-outs, she sees a way for them both to escape. As a result of witnessing this gruesome murder scene, Elin now reacts violently to the sight of blood and violence (lots of screaming, vomiting, etc.) Elin's mother died months ago in childbirth after having been forced to breed with multiple Phoenix soldiers. A year ago, she was captured after Phoenix warriors murdered her father and husband and enslaved her and her mother-all because her mother had mated with a human. One of the princess's slave girls is the halfling Elin Vale (half human, half Phoenix). Each time Thane is chained in her dungeon, he breaks out and returns to her for more sex. Here Bjorn and Xerxes are trying to cheer up Thane, who just awakened from a nightmare:Īs this novel opens, Thane is under the spell of Kendra, a Phoenix princess who entrapped Thane by having sex with him numerous time, each time emitting a poison that bonds him to her, taking away his free will. Kendra has convinced Thane that his name is "My Slave" and that he lives only for her touch.
Meanwhile, the three men have an extremely close relationship, and their bromantic dialogue can get ridiculously sappy at times. Bjorn and Xerxes have been dealing with their emotional damage in other ways, which I'm sure we'll see in more detail when their books are written. Thane is the most feared assassin in the Army of Disgrace because of his fearlessness and his lack of mercy. He conducts his rough liaisons in a special room that has built-in chains, handcuffs, and torture devices. Since then, Thane has been filled with an inner rage and an insatiable need for violence that he fulfills through savage, S&M one-night stands with anonymous women he picks up at his club, the Downfall. The demons tortured Bjorn and Xerxes, but not Thane because they wanted to feed off Thane's guilt and rage as he watched his companions being beaten, stabbed, and tormented. Thane and his two BFFs, Bjorn and Xerxes, bonded long ago after they escaped imprisonment in a demon's dungeon.
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