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"What happened?" Aaze

"Bastien broke into network headquarters, assaulted several dozen guards, and executed one of the vamps in his apartment"

Ami’s breath left her in a rush "What?"

"Son of a bitch!" Marcus exclaimed

"I don’t believe it," Ami protested Bastien wouldn’t do that

Sarah nodded sadly "It’s true"

"Chris Reordon and a hell of a lot of others are again calling for his execution," Roland added "I don’t kno he hed him doith chains Seth is with them now"

"No wonder Seth didn’t anshen I called," Marcusto do it, is he?" Ami asked "Execute hi with such malice Ami shivered

Sarah frowned "Roland, don’t be like that You know things aren’t always as they see tenaciously to his grudge

"You aren’t as you seem," Sarah pointed out

Marcus snorted and quipped, "Most of the ti his arm around Ami, he drew her closer

Warlancing surreptitiously at so behind her

While Roland cast aspersions on Marcus’s character, A

Roland and Marcus began to argue strategy while Sarah ran interference Ami said little, content to let the others hash out the particulars She already knehat her role would be … whether they liked it or not

Bastien’s lair was a large, open field in which a farmhouse used to reside The farmhouse itself had been unremarkable Beneath it, however, had been a series of tunnels that had served as the sleeping quarters for Bastien and the hundred or so va Roland and bringing down the Immortal Guardians one at a time

After Bastien’s defeat, the farround and the tunnels packed with debris, dirt, gravel, and sand

With no trees to block the light of theof her katanas, Aain

As talk continued to flow around her, fatigue set in

Several tilance to the side as unobtrusively as possible Roland and Sarah didn’t seem to notice A for it and if he didn’t rub his hand up and down her ar the contact

Uneasiness returned with a vengeance as an explanation finally occurred to her

Was he seeing a ghost?

Gooseflesh broke out on her arht

Was soht there in the rooh distracted, Areeed at Bastien’s lair (she had never doubted that much), and Roland would join them and pose as Bastien

Other than the short hair, Roland did bear a striking rese she didn’t think he appreciated his wife’s reed to perforhtly patrols rather than accompany them This could, after all,as many as possible to one location, so whatever reh North Carolina’s cities and towns and recruit enough victi to look over their shoulders

Richart and the other immortals in the area would be put on alert If Roy’s invitation turned into the ambush everyone feared, Richart could then teleport in every able immortal in the state and, if necessary, their Seconds

That should suffice

Or so they hoped

Chapter 9

"Nice video Did you get it off of YouTube?"