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Styx cautiously h space not to set off Roke’s possessive fury No doubt he sensed that Roke was on a hair trigger Or ave it away

"Tell ave another shiver and Roke tightened his ar to watch his Anasso with a feral warning

"That creature--"

"Gaius?" Styx asked

Sally nodded "Yes, although it wasn’t really hilanced toward the safe just visible through the jagged hole in the wall "He brought you here to get the book?"

"Yes"

"Why?"

"It can harlanced down at her in surprise "A book?"

She griri Any vaht an entire tribe of trolls bare-handed than deal with ic

"Why you?" Styx abruptly asked

Sally blinked "Me?"

"Why did he go to the trouble of kidnapping you if all he needed was a witch?" The towering warrior clarified "He had to knoould alert us to his presence here"

She hesitated, sending a covert glance toward Roke before she returned her attention to the Anasso

"Because the spell is bound to my soul," she at last revealed

"Shit," Roke snarled, a sharp fear spearing through hiic, but he knew that having Sally’s soul bound to a spell was a very bad thing

Daht her to this warehouse? He should’ve had the sense to return her to Styx’s lair the second he realized he was susceptible to her er as he h to realize that if it intended Sally to be reunited with the book, there was nothing he could do to stop the inevitable

But that didn’t hts were interrupted as Styx stepped toward the hole in the wall, his brows drawn together "Sorcery?"

"Yes I’ heir" She bit her botto Roke twitch with the need to rip the spirit into painful pieces Several painful pieces "If he can killyou," Roke snapped

She flashed hiazes locked His filled with a bleak proret

"Why can this book hurt the spirit?" Styx intruded into their silent exchange

Sally shrugged "I won’t know until Iit"

Roke went rigid "No"

"Roke" She firle "We have to find out what’s in that book"

His hands clenched as he brutally squashed the need to jerk her back into the safety of his ar "And if this is a trick?"

Styx arched a dark brow "What kind of trick?"

"Maybe the damned spirit pretended the book could har in our powers to destroy the ave a shake of her head, her nose wrinkling "There was no doubt it was being affected by its proxi from the inside out"

Roke folded his ar he was ain his heels "All the more reason to leave it alone until we know ree with you, ao," Styx said, a hint of compassion on his face "But in this case, neither of us is in a position to make a reasoned decision" He nodded toward Sally "Only our expert can decide what’s best"

She widened her eyes in faux shock "You "