Even still, Ash was revealed to be the strongest.  She was to be given to someone, and her exact nature inside her was awakened.  She was called, she was tempted, and she almost lost herself in her Mother's urges like her sisters did when her beloved Mate killed her sisters in ecstasy before her eyes.  The battle became hers, and hers alone.  Her foes were three-fold.  Her Mother, both in front of her and within her.  Her beloved Mate, insatiable and full of desire and dripping hard with lust; a god with growing powers to be sure.  And herself; her urges, her hunger, from the part of her that is Mother-infused succubus flesh that corrupted and seduced Ash's Father.

She met another.  A man close friends with her beloved Mate.  Already, a heart that was lied to, and tricked, the young succubus demon/celestial warrior on the side of Good was beating 1,000 times a second.  Answering His call turned out to be harder than she thought.  After what she saw, and the things she has seen and felt with this connection she has with her Mother that led her to flee towards the very same urges she tried to run away from.  Modeling, drinking, using her comeliness she inherited from her Mother.

She watched this male friend of her Mate's.  She is still a honed warrior of light and good.  Alone, younger and far less powerful than either man, Ash is further plagued with the disappointing truth that her Father lied to her and her sisters.  Her Father was just that far gone, the young sisters did not even see it.  And how was this possible?  Her Mother was everywhere!  Ash was just a thing for her Mother's plans.

Never.  Ash refuses to be another Vessel.  She refuses!  Do you hear me, Mother???!!!