“Everything the angel tells you is truth,” Aliisza said. “Every promise he makes to you will be honored. He cannot help it. It is his nature.”
“That’s not what I asked you,” Kaanyr said. “Can you see any trickery in his offer? Have I established the parameters solidly enough? Is there anything I am missing?”
It’s not what you think you see that gets you, Aliisza thought. That’s only what he distracts you with. It’s what you never expected that will be your undoing. And you’ll deserve every last bit of misery from it, you bastard.