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Lucian nodded "Yeah, it’s over And this is all so char I think you really love her And I think she loves you"

"Are you still in love with her?"

Lucian laughed softly "A, I suppose, but that doesn’twith each other?"

"We haven’t slept together in years"

"How many years?"

"Decades, old boy, decades"

It all had to be a macabre joke

"I’m sorry I don’t believe any of this"

"Don’t you? I think you do, but I can help you on the road to belief as well You’re not in great shape at the moment, Lieutenant Another encounter with Aaron? What can I say to convince you--beyond what you already know but don’t want to see? Ah, yes! I’ to bet that the police have recently discovered body parts Belonging to one Rutger Leon"

Sean started The news hadn’t hit the papers yet The front pages had been filled with the aborted attack on Maer Leon’s body parts?"

"Well, I’m the one who ry I’ to fore in small mammals and the Red Cross es her society--I try to abate er cairl I decided not to let hi his mind "Why are you here?" he asked

"So that you can save Maggie’s life"

Sean frowned "What do you oing to try to trap him, and kill him No matter what I say to her She can’t do that For one, he’s very powerful, and he could kill her She’s bested him before, so she doesn’t realize just hoerful he’s becoed to do aith him, I’d be required to order an execution It’s a law more ancient than any of us We are not to kill our own kind No ie, if she destroyed him and I didn’t order her death, there would be rebellion and chaos a me this?" Sean demanded harshly

"Obviously, you, as a mortal, have to kill him"

"How?"

Lucian smiled "Good response Not ‘don’t be ridiculous, I’m an officer of the law, I can’t kill hiie And carry a sword"

"Get serious I can’t walk around with a sword--"

"Then get a really big knife When you get your chance, you’ve got to cut off his head"

"I can’t even find hiet his head off?"

"Ahnow I have your attention If you want this to end, you have to figure out how to kill Aaron As to how you’re going to e to do it well, hell, I don’t know I believe he comes from this area--"

"Believe? You don’t know?"

"No, I don’t know everything As I said, Aaron has gotten strong He’d like to be , so he’ll go after her first They met here And at some time, he must sleep All vaie and ht Still, in the day, we haven’t the strength we have at night Find hiive hi shots, officer Find hih the heart, take his head"