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Derek said, "Twenty-eight seconds until they’re in place"

Ashattered A rock bounced across the lobby, sparkling glass shards catching the pink glow from outside "As soon as the protestors are down, have the ?"

"He cannot see it, me sha" I rotated my upper body at the familiar French tones "He is fully human," Leo said Outside, the demon cast no shadow He wasn’t fully here Yet

The uably one of the ently He earing a tuxedo with a black silk shirt, white cummerbund, and bowtie He looked beautiful And deadly His black eyes sparkled as if he knehat I had thought, and he reached out to s my shoulder and spine, in a sleek caress Beside hiht blue tux with a blue silk shirt the color of his eyes The vaether

I put my weapon on safety, holstered it, and pulled them back from the door "Go back to your rooms" They looked at each other, turned to the s, and s More like two feral creatures staring at prey I got a bad feeling

"It has been oire said "Our servants are restrained"

I scanned behind nored the rock that exploded into the roo on the couches in front of the fireplace Staring at nothing I raced over and saeapons on the floor at the twins’ feet Wrassler was asleep on the rug "Let the the M4 "I need theun was loaded for va silver worked on demons, and I was the only one with silver Leo’s decision A dumb one I could lay blame later, if I lived I took Leo’s aro"

"No The little witch is ours," Grégoire said He va wide as quarters in blood red sclera "You have done well, bringing her to elina so he could kill her Crap

"And we ers with a s out theinto the growing dark and increasing reddish glare of Evangelina’s ies "Shaddock’s master, Dufresnee, is sworn to me, and I to him I have drunk from him Shaddock is mine"

"Shaddock is a barbarian, but he is our barbarian," Grégoire agreed, sounding eager

"Shall we?" Leo asked hioire dreord froive me if I precede you, my master" With a firm pop of air, like a drumhead hit hard, he disappeared

"He is always first on a battlefield," Leo said, aggrieved He vae and disappeared with a puff of air that e Both ical, but the one out through the broken s They faced off against Evangelina

I swore succinctly and gathereda vest, Legs," he said