"Choose your words carefully." he shot back peevishly, hands moving to cradle her head with Tommy's gentle touch and an alien anger burning in hellish red eyes. "For hope is the one thing you have for always. Mark my words, if they are not shown the price of trifling with my children...I will show them. They play power games with you, but that stops now. Now, Selene, you will play the games because you have the power. You use them, they use you? Use someone else for a change. Use your husband."