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"Sean! Go Away"

He locked his jaw "I don’t knohat the hell is going on here, but I’et it sorted out"

Of all the rude, arrogantto me and from now on, I will deal with them"

I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him "I’m sorry, I must’ve missed your coronation ceremony Silly ers in the direction of the door "Shoo Leave, and don’t slam the door on your way out"

He planted hi "Make ave hih I’m serious, Sean Leave or there will be consequences"

"Give ic s open just in tih it and into the orchard The orchard was a safer bet The bulk of the house shielded it from the passersby and traffic, which would hopefully let us avoid pain-in-the-butt questions

I heard a solid thud, then got up, and looked out through the open door Beast joined lanced at Beast "I did warn him"

Sean raised his head, shook it, and rolled to his feet His face gained that feral, predatory look

"Uh-oh We better brace ourselves" I sipped froed through the door It started to close, and I flickedthe inn to keep it open The door would cost ot a foot and a half inside, and thehirass as he fell

He shouldn’t have made it that far in He shouldn’t have been able to enter, period True, the inn had stood abandoned for a long while and wasn’t as strong as most yet, but it should’ve kept hione coht ball and sprinted to the door with inhuman speed I felt the inn block hih it, ic hit hiht the doorfrarowled like an ani had a right to make

I picked up my broom The inn would need some help "You knohat the definition of insanity is, Beast?"

Sean strained The ed, taut like ropes under his skin Slowly he gained an inch Another inch Wow He was re the sa a different result" I brought the butt of the brooh the inn like the toll of a huge bell It had no sound, but I heard it all the saht in the current of a fan and smashed into an apple tree forty feet away I heard the crunch all the way fro the doorframe

The house creaked

"You did well," I murmured to it "He’s just freakishly powerful"

Unbelievably powerful I’ve handled olves before They were psychotic and homicidal, but none could’ve done what he did

Sean wasn’tNot that he wouldn’t heal --he would, and at an accelerated rate --but still, snapping his spine hadn’t been o investigate?"

The h the front door A black-and-white was parked by my driveway and a man in a tan uniforet a visit frorass under the apple tree was empty Sean Evans had vanished

"Can I offer you some tea, Officer?"

Officer Hector Marais peered at me Solid and fit, clean-shaven, his dark hair cut short, he embodied the very essence of his profession If you saw hi toward you at dusk, you wouldn’t cross the street, because you would knoas a cop He radiated that air of wary authority, and as he crossed the threshold into the inn, he surveyedfor weapons

"No, thank you, Ms Deht, around one in theunusual?"

"Oh oodness Who was it? Is she okay? What happened?" People who had prior awareness of the incident didn’t ask questions

Officer Marais studiedit as a wild aniht? Noises, perhaps an unco my door?"