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Вы можете извлечь человека из волка, но не  можете извлечь волка из человека.

Her elegant face, as pale and lovely as the moon goddess after whom she was named, was a mask of coldblooded concentration, betraying no sign of the restless anxieties troubling her mind.

Despite my so-called immortality, she realized bitterly, I haven’t really been alive since my family died more than a century ago. I have been just what the mortals think we are, one of the living dead.

At least he had provoked some sort of response from Selene, cracking her veneer of frosty detachment. Not exactly the type of foreplay I would have preferred, he thought lewdly, but it will do for now.

Erika glanced down at Corvin with greater interest, and perhaps a flicker of jealousy. Did she envy Selene her human Prince Charming?

But all he cares about is that coldhearted killing machine, Selene!

“Throw down your weapons!” a particularly unkempt specimen shouted belligerently, aiming the muzzle of a futuristic firearm at Viktor.

The decadent atmosphere was redolent of expensive perfume and steaming plasma, but, despite the numerous bodies crowded into the salon, the temperature remained pleasantly cool