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He had grown tyrannical, despotic—as dangerous and as unpredictable as a firecracker strapped to a can of Coke. He had lost something the day his mother died, and while Akashi had more than a handful of natural abilities and talents, not to mention enough prowess to challenge the most formidable lion, he had never unearthed this truth. To do so would mean getting his hands dirty, to claw down to the tangled roots of his heart, to bare the radicles of his soul, and while Akashi was viewed as a king in his own right, he was no wildcat in this regard. Akashi was afraid of climbing up the proverbial ladder to Jacob's room, afraid of facing the ghosts of his past and the cold grip of disassociation that still haunts the marrow of his bones.