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I would punch hiht in the face, hard "Fine I’ll need a lot of back-up for the Guild"

Curran looked at Ji she needs"

"Okay," Jim said He picked up the pieces of his clipboard, pulled a piece of paper out and handed it to ave it back to him

Jim read it "I’ll take care of it, Consort"

"Thank you, alpha"

If it had been raining, our voices would’ve frozen it into hail

"Is there anything else?" Jim asked Curran

"No"

Jim nodded and left

"I hate you," I told Curran

He chuckled "You’d hate me more if Jim quit We’d have to find a replacement I don’t trust that many people Just think how much more shit you’d have to put up with"

"Don’t," I warned hiuard my body then the woh play" Curran pretended to shiver in excitehtly

"You kneas inevitable," he said

I knew The moment Jim sent me the file I had known exactly hoould end But I put up a valiant fight "Yes, but I don’t have to like it Can we eat now? I’iven?" he asked

"Sure The next time you decide to flex your claws and co civil servant, I’ll bark, ’Enough!’ and expect to be obeyed, how about that?"

"You told me no," he said

"And?"

"And I didn’t like it"

"You can’t assault the DA’s house, you crazy bastard!"

"And you can’t check out of the Guild’s s we don’t want to do I consider us even"

I rolled my eyes and ent upstairs to our cold food

"I knohat that ass is getting from me next Christmas," I said

"What?"

"Clipboards Lots and lots of clipboards"

Chapter Eight

Before the Shift and the start of ed by the kind of car they drove, by the clothes they wore, and the company they kept In post-Shift Atlanta visual clues were still proved true in soh A bued cloak could walk out into the crowded street, raise his ar and hail the size of coconuts, leveling everything in a three mile radius

That’s why post-Shift Atlanta evolved a new concept: a show of power It was a decisive, showy dened to intirey jeans, grey T-shirt, and grey leather jacket waited for ed with fur Grey was the Pack color I was going to put on a show for the Guild and this was my costume for it I put the clothes on, addedknives, and uards filled with silver needles I braided my hair away frombadass loud and clear Normally I stayed away from clothes like that The less attention I drehen I worked, the better Today was different

Ihis teeth His blond eyebrows crept up "That’s your Council hed "Cloak or no cloak?"

"Definitely cloak," he said

I tried the cloak on in front of the mirror

Curran caun or are you just happy to see e" He nipped the skin on the back of h ligee My love ot excited by a wo deeply twisted about that Lucky for ain "You’re finally getting the hang of this whole badass thing"

"I was always badass"

"No, you thought were badass and talked a lot of crap" He wrapped his aro"

"You have tiain Every nerve in my body ca" I pulled free fro me in with his arms Mmm, Curran I really didn’t want to leave

"Co"

"Who would that be fun for, exactly? Your seducing techniques need work" I untangledelse to say to change my mind

It took me ten minutes to stop by the medical ward

Roderick’s collar has faded to leht red, inflamed It hurt just to look at it I crouched by hi?"

"I’m okay, thank you"