"Too bad..." Konoe said. "I was going to let you live." She smiled. "It would have been nice to have made you my mistress...but if you insist you hate me, I can't allow you to live." Konoe knew that highly trained assassins would prefer death to this, but she felt in her heart, this girl was not that programmed, and truly hoped she would see the light. "I am offering you my bed instead of the grave...please..decide."