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So she wouldn’t be She straightened, turned her back on the mirror She didn’t need to see a transparent reflection to knoho she was Defying her treh the bathroom exit that led into her bedroo wherever it was they aiting Going to her closet, she began to select what she needed, ignoring the shadow creatures snickering and winding around her feet, or the endless, involuntary tears she had to keep brushing off her cheeks with tre rooan had taken him into the appropriate room, shown him what they would need to do There seeht with it Guess if you had to restrain a vampire, there was no better place than a BDSM club owner’s private dungeon, particularly one who an didn’t strike him as the kind who’d let anyone tie hiured out the dynamic between Anwyn and her mysterious roommate At times it seemed she submitted to his co some elusive dance, hard for an outsider to fathoan, he was listening for movement in the bedroo into weird areas The bedrooo, only a brief flash of Anwyn through the crack A wo seen when she didn’t want to be

"You’re not an overlord, or a Region Master," he said slowly, his hands linked between his knees "I know pretty et the feeling the Region Master or overlord of this territory knows you’re here, which is pretty rude in the vaave hiether, maybe" Gideon returned a bland stare "So who are you?"

"What amazes me, human, is that you think I owe you any explanations"

"You’re trusting h you already knoho and what I aives me some latitude"

"And if I tell you that you only need the information I deem appropriate?"

"Then I tell you I can shoot an arrow pretty daet’s large enough"

Daegan straightened from the mantel "Then do your parlor trick, vaets you"

"You’ll just set overly personal with ularly" Daegan stepped forward and spread his arms, less than ten feet from him "Shoot, Gideon I will not auntlet"

Apparently the two of the to do, Gideon reflected, because he itched to do it "You were the one who had to be all honorable and say ouldn’t co around and getting dressed, from the sound of it Afraid I’ll call your bluff? I will not touch you"

"Let uess This is one of thoseKarate Kidthe fly in chopsticks If I pin the vaan raised a brow "Let me make this easier for you" He closed his eyes and turned his back on Gideon The coat spread out like a bat’s wings

Son of a bitch No freaking wayStill, why the hell not? Gideon brought his hand up, even took the time to steady his aim He was accurate with it up to fifty feet, so ten feet was nothing, but an er At the last minute, he aimed at the lower back, in case the son of a bitchwas too daant He couldn’t care less, but Anwyn didn’t need any more stress today, and a chiropractic adjustment would be more palatable than a staked vampire

He’d worked with this weapon until it could fly almost as fast as a vaan was in the same place, same position The folds of the duster fluttered, but that had to be due to the currents of the recycled air in the underground environ over his shoulder "Did you fire, vampire hunter?"

"You know I did" Gideon rose, circled in front of hi out of Daegan, as far as he could tell "And you accuse me of parlor tricks?"

"Parlor tricks can be deadly" Gideon abruptly found the point of the arrow notched under the soft tissue of his throat, Daegan’s other hand on the back of his neck, holding hilittered, the firood ones, vah to beat an" Gideon forced hiaze "Because every one of you has a weak, undefended ood at finding it If I hang around long enough, I’ll find yours"