Third Person’s POV Cliff Blackwell had a long history of dealing with bad situations—he’d come face to face with death enough times to recognize a particularly precarious situation and Cronan Thanisius, bred only to succeed his blood thirsty father, endowed with the sole purpose of reproducing an equally strong and brutal heir, was going to be a problem. A big one. He’d called old friends, friends he hadn’t seen in a while and discussed—in theoreticals, of course—the best way to remove a bonded human from a Pureblood. “You don’t,” was Viktor’s automatic response. Viktor Romano was a made man within the Ciogotti Clan, and a vicious one at that. There was no question that if anybody could outwit and outgun a vampire, it would be him. Still, swirling his whiskey in h

