>>21445671Cassie Kade gambled. And the gamble paid off. As the flames begin their unnatural retreat, Cassie rests a hand on the cross hanging from her necklace and much like the flames, that repressed force within her that had started to make its influence felt begins to fade.
Persephone and Pandora however, remain. As does the severe damage to Club Xtacy’s ground floor. Repairs would be expensive, but as far as Cassie was concerned, that paled in comparison to the profits, both on and especially off the books, that she’d lose out on while the club had to remain closed. And the dark enigma named Persephone was to blame.
While Cassie wasn’t as inclined to admit it, the feeling of intrigue Persephone expressed was mutual. Her own power that she had gained after years of work to climb the ranks within Dublin’s largest criminal organisation, was, despite the demonic ancestry she recently learned of, very human. Power held together by her ability to instill fear and respect in her subordinates. That and her bravery and wit in situations like the one she faced tonight.
But Persephone, she was something very different. Power in a more direct sense. An ability to exert control over others and to create fires with a snap of her fingers. And that was only what Cassie had observed tonight. There could well be more.
Cassie had long held an aversion to the supernatural. But Persephone’s display tonight… And her own origins, specifically Lexi’s revelation that their kind could live for hundreds of years, time with which she could accumulate untold levels of wealth and build an organisation, no, an empire that spanned beyond far her already ambitious dreams? Well, it all certainly had a way of changing one’s perspective.
