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Alex found the door Thierry had gone through, and the irew darker and more hate-filled "Phil, oh, God, helpto kill a priest"

Michael tucked his cell phone in his pocket

"I took French in high school," John mentioned casually "So I know rabbed Cyprien’s sleeve "Nohere is he?"

Michael looked at the guards and inclined his head They went back inside the house

"Well?" John clenched a fist

"Alexandra is seven blocks away fro to catch aeveryone inside When she returns, theto abduct her and take her to Ireland, where he will do unspeakable things to her"

John slowly dropped his hand "Not in this lifetiestured toward John’s rental "We will take your car"

John followed his directions to the letter "Who are you? How did et ainst the dashboard as John stomped on the brake "Before you attack aze turned flat and deadly "You’re lying"

"I wish I were" He looked out at the street "Now drive"

"I joined the Brethren to prove you don’t exist," John said through gritted teeth "They made me kill one of you A Spaniard"

"How did you end his life?" Michael asked

"I stabbed him in the heart"

He nodded "He still lives, then You haven’t joined the Brethren, either" He looked at the front of St Agatha’s The doors and ere closed, and the church was dark and silent Phillipe’s car stood eot out, John came around the car "I joined the Brethren in Ro and killed that vampire"

Michael wanted to toss John out of the way, but he was Alexandra’s brother He had also earned the right to the truth "The only way to kill us is to cut off our heads or burn us to ash You cannot join the Brethren unless your father belonged to the order They breed their own h the training, the trials I proved myself worthy of the order"

"You were tortured, Father Keller," Michael said gently "The only difference bethat the Brethren do to us and what they did to you is that you illingly, and you cooperated with theed "They needed you to get to Alexandra The Brethren knew that she operated on me and restored s about us, such as the fact that we may not be cursed Alexandra believes that we are simply victims of a disease If she does prove this, it will expose the Brethren for the butchers that they are If she cures us, the Brethren will have no reason to exist They very ine that you have led them to her"

John’s face turned white "No It’s not true"

"The pitiful thing is that they used your faith and your love for your sister That, I think, is worse than the torture" Michael heard a feminine cry and hurried around the church

Gelina could not believe her good luck Keller and his sister together in one place, and the bonus of Michael Cyprien and several of his Kyn as well After tonight, Stoss would give her whatever she desired Money, jewels, Keller, a new villa in the south of France

Perhaps he would give her Michael Cyprien, too Gelina had always loved his hands, and those incredible, crystalline blue eyes of his She could take his hands off sloith a scalpel, or fast and messy with a hacksaw As for his eyes, they would look even lovelier floating in ajar She knew just the shelf she would put it on, too, in the private room at home where she kept her other h those eyes while he burned, a blind a Cyprien and Keller until they disappeared into the rectory She took out her phone and called for reinforce to wait for them

Thierry let the priest’s unconscious body fall to the floor He had fed, but not enough to induce thrall and rapture If he was to find his Angel, he needed more blood from more throats

Thierry, stop

He lifted his head and drew in air until he cleared the scent of blood froht as a trill of her laughter, as potent as the touch of her hands

She was here, the woman with the doe eyes

He disdained the door and cli to the eht so They were co her as the lure

He examined the room, found what he needed Stay above Always above

Thierry waited behind the door Listened to their footsteps Hers were light, those of the man with her heavier He smelled the stink of copper She was on the other side of the door She was reaching for the door, turning the knob He pulled it open, knocking the gun fro it closed He broke off the knob to keep the htened

It was her, but it wasn’t Then it all became clear to him Thierry looked down into her face and wrapped his arreat weight was thrown against it froroaned

Thierry ju, and hauled hiel into the attic

Michael and John found Phillipe ignoring two angry priests and throwing hiainst a heavy oak door