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The knife pressed against ht?” I couldn’t see as behind s Half a beat later its Otherness began to slip along ers curled around the door handle of my car

I didn’t have time for this

It hissed a few inches fro to pay for what you did—”

I brought my elbow up hard, faster than any human could track, and cracked my attacker neatly in the face as I spun around Without hesitation, I grabbed him by the neck and slaoing to leave a dent I glanced around Luckily there were no bystanders nearby “What’s your problem?” I snarled “Doesn’t look like you want a piece of me now”

The rheu once An imp, by definition, was half human, half demon—and this one was heavy on the huered any of my new senses A supe this weak had to be in close proxier to me—more like a pesky mosquito—and to my credit he stank like a dirty bum more than any kind of demon I examined him, not surprised to find he resembled the imp I’d killed last week But this one was a lot weaker than Drake, so e?

Dee

“So it’s…” he gasped through a very diminished airway, “… true…”

“What’s true?” I relaxed rip on his neck so he could answer When he failed to do so, I hauled hiainst the side ofa little short on time Care to expound further?” I shook hi him know there was really no other choice

A glint of surprise along with a creepy shtly pointy teeth slowly spread over his features I jato convince hilier “Look,” I said when he reh few days and I’oing to end well for you if you don’t answer reasy brown hair swung limply over his shoulders as I jostled hi must be a union order

“I didn’t know you were her,” he finally spat, hisular “I cae my cousin But I can smell you now I knoho you are There have been rumors, but you won’t be able to hide from us We will find you”

Findthe real threat behind his words I wasn’t hiding from anyone, especially not the imps My secret had come out, and for all I knew the entire planet ell aware I’d become the only female olf on earth It wasn’t ideal, but nobody had asked me