Le-a sacrificat pe toate!He had sacrificed them all!All but Jessenia Groza.And that was only because Timaos Silivasi had helped her fake her death, staged a phony funeral and burial, and hidden her in his cellar for the last six months! But Jaegar had her now, and she would certainly die on the morrow, her first-blood consumed by both him and the high priest.Yet and still, the celestial gods withheld their ultimate favor—infinite, immortal power. They still failed to acknowledge his greatness or to bow down to his genius, to name him as one of the divine.He spat on the floor, uncaring that the spittle festooned rare, expensive marble.Sure, the dark lords, those shadowed twins of the celestial gods, had rewarded him with ever-increasing power. They had bestowed countless favors on all the kingdom’s males, including Prince Jadon’s misguided rebels, but what did the celestial deities expect him to do? Hunt down the traitorous wizard Fabian, the renegade fool who had escaped into the Transylvanian Alps with Jaegar’s royal sisters, leading both of them to a certain death by the elements, the animals, or starvation?
