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Daut He shifted away from Finn and took deep breaths as a couple of hard spasms pulled on his empty stomach once more
As the two Guards and the body between theive thee, trees like the ones in nearby Shreveport, Louisiana, the access point between his plane and the human world
His realm had seen hard times for the past forty years and for all that tiht of his real down hard, just as it did on all the e of about a millions souls each
Finn’s phone rang He listened for a few seconds, then brushed sweat off his forehead with the back of his sleeve “Shit Well, that dumb-fuck’s been warned”
Ethan stared at hiain?”
Finn put his phone away “Yep He’s at Club Prave”
“Are you fking kiddingone of Ethan’s strict laws about how humans and realm-folk interact at a human-based event
Finn grimaced “I’ll handle this”
“No I want to this tih and now I’ him up”
“Ethan, you’ve got better things to do than to police the human bars”
“Not this tinall hides behind his cozy relationship with Ry Time he learned who’s mastyr around here”
“He knows”
“Then why the hell is he testing my laws and my authority?”
But Finn’s smile was crooked as he said, “Because he’s a vampire?”
At that, Ethan almost smiled as well But the truth was harsher Tom had a loyalty to Ry, and had caused dozens of problems in recent years because of it
But Ethan’s other probleain He breathed through the pain wondering what the hell was going on with him He’d never been quite this desperate where his blood-needs were concerned And now, because of To law at human clubs, he wouldn’t have tiet his blood craving slaked, or at least htly desperate, then jump back in the field
He left orders for Paul’s body to be taken to theord that he’d check in to learn cause of death
Before any of the ain that he regularly took too much on his own shoulders, he headed south to Shreveport, levitating and flying quickly just a foot or so above the ground Hehis frustration as he took off and he half-suspected Finn would find some excuse to follow in his wake
Gerrod, the Mastyr of Merhaine Realm, had tried to warn Ethan that he needed to listen to his s his oay and his orking just fine So far, he’d kept the Invictus in check in Bergisson, and to-date, he had one of the lowest occurrence rates in all the Nine Realms