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DEGENERATES by Natalie Bennett
© 2019 by Natalie Bennett. All rights reserved.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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Prologue
In Nomine Satanas Cum Potentia Inferni
Badlands
[Bad-Lands]
-noun
1. Often referred to as hell on earth.
2. A place where humanity has ceased to exist. Cannibals lurk in the shadows. Stronger gangs take out the weak.
It’s a place where the satanic Savages reign supreme, beneath the tyranny of a man revered as the devil himself, a deviant self-made king.
That same man just so happens to be my father.
My mother is his queen.
Not in the pet-name sort-of way either, that’s legitimately how she is seen.
I can’t tell you what the world was like when a government was in place, whole cities weren’t abandoned, and death wasn’t always waiting for you to fuck up so he could harvest your soul.
Fortunately, I wasn’t born yet because that kind of world sounds like a nightmare.
What I can tell you is that the Badlands is my home sweet home, my very own wonderland.
I’m Adelaide Deville.
Savage princess.
Satan’s daughter.
A tad bit debauched.
I’m part of the poisoned youth.
We’re a generation of degenerates.
We set fire to our insides for fun.
We cut ourselves open just to feel.
We’re heartless, reckless, and all around fucked up.
But most importantly, we’re family.
I can honestly say that I never had much to complain about. My life was mostly smooth sailing with the occasional bump in the road.
One fucking night was all it took for that to change.
Meeting him was a cruel act of fate, something I had never believed in until I quite literally ran across his path.
His name was, Zane.
He was wild.
He was depraved.
He was a Venomous prince.
Hating him was innate.
Loving him was unavoidable.
Our relationship was many things.
Violent.
Bloody.
It was him shattering me.
It was me breaking him.
It was love, pain, and every fucked-up thing in between.
I was the nitro.
He was the dynamite.
Together we were catastrophic.
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