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them on the defensive. He had been so close, so

close, but underestimating his cousin had cost him. Lucas was

stronger than he had thought. He would never make that mistake

again, but it was possible that once was all it would take to change

Creon from a savior to an embarrassment.

Now that his target was being protected by his own family, he

had few options but to wait and see if she was stupid enough to go

out on her own. He was hoping that if she went anywhere it would

be to the place she had once called home.

It wasn?t much of a chance, but it was all he had at this point. He

couldn?t go back to the yacht and face his other cousins emptyhanded.

He had to come up with something else?a lead, an opportunity,

something?before he involved any of the Hundred. No

matter how this turned out, his father could never know about his

failure outside the hotel. It was too humiliating to even think

about.

Tantalus had finally entrusted Creon with the truth, and for the

first time in over nineteen years, Creon had been allowed to hear

his father?s actual voice. He hadn?t been allowed in the same room,

or seen his father?s face, because that woman had deformed it so

monstrously it would be death to look upon him, but for the first

time in such a long time Creon had actually spoken to his father

and learned about the burden he carried.

His father praised him for being so strong and faithful over the

years. Then he told his son what had really happened in that rowboat,

how his thoughts and his will had been so grievously twisted

that he had had been led into a type of sin that had marked him

forever?marked like Medusa. Tantalus admitted his wrongs, repented

for them, and told his son that he had been trying to right

them ever since. He had sworn to remove the feminine evil of the