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"I can’t I’ure that out, they may come back and finish us off"

"Conjure up some wooden stakes and shoot them!"

"It doesn’t work that way, kid"

I ran toward the swarm of vampires Three of the new ones for, now hairless comrades I loweredThe other caught a blast of fire from the sorcerer

A cold pair of arms clamped me around the chest "You’ll make a nice snack," said a deepbackwards, sla my captor into the brick wall His hold loosened I rocked my body forward then drove my head back into his face His nose made a nasty crunch His arms loosened their hold as his hands raced for his broken nose I spun and punched him in the eye Kneed him in the stomach He howled in pain and doubled over as dark blood oozed to the ground A foot slammed into my butt I tumbled forward and landed in a heap next to the sorcerer

Hebetween us and the vampires The one I’d injured flipped me off while his comrade helped him into a black car at the end of the alley The van with eek valasses at the shield and stuck her tongue out at us before following her coone and her pink shirt had acquired greenish mustard and rotten lettuce--probably from the oft-used dutoto do?"

"There’s not much you can do," he said without much sympathy in his voice

I stood up Grabbed him by his coat and jerked him toward me "You may not think we’re human, but he’s my dad and I plan to save hione"

"I don’t appreciate the way you’re touching e boiled round by his collar and considered slaer

"Hurt ht It wouldn’t do er I dropped him on his feet and turned away to stare at the alley exit

The sorcerer cleared his throat nervously "Look, I appreciate you saving my life back there The name’s Harry Shelton, but everyone calls lare at him over my shoulder "I’, "from the bounty notice"

"I suppose the Conroys told you all about us"

"Those stuck-up bluebloods?" He snorted "Alice Conroy, your o We hadn’t heard a thing about her for over a decade Suddenly she’s back on the radar and the Conroys put out a bounty on David Slade Now, as everybody knows, you don’t er considered a part of the fa and found not only did Alice Conroy play house with this ured out Case was an alias, it was only ayou down"

"My dad may be derowl This guy was about to get save htful look "I’ll admit he doesn’t seeer at ht spawn and hu produced pure spawn" His eyes lit up "But in this case it didn’t Aht? You’re part human That explains how you could breakto help me or not?" Every wasted second beat painfully init mildly"

"If I do assist, we can’t involve any other sorcerers Your kind doesn’t have a lot of admirers"

"Is it just me or is the supernatural community full of racists?"

He smiled "Look, you don’t know much about the political map, obviously Incubi are not nice…err…people Vampires, on the other hand, are pretty civil But mostly, everyone loathes the spawn because they’re a bunch of demonic jerks"

"The vaeted with his collar "Well, we’ve had soreements with the around and looked at them mournfully "If I’d had ic it back together again," I said "It’s just a lousy stick"

"Right, well I wouldn’t expect you to understand a thing about ?"

He sighed "This ain’t Harry Potter, kid There aren’t any ic words, only willpower and ability" He unscrewed a cap from the bottom end of the staff and withdrew a silver container<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>