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But weaponsHe found he’d shifted to the cabinet holding Daegan’s cache Opening the wooden door and exa Twelve Seventeen Thirteen

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As the lock an really needed to work on his password security Course, in all fairness, the code he’d given to Gideon had apparently never been given to anyone before Which suggested again that Daegan had given Gideon a level of trust he hadn’t granted to anyone else, like the uncontrolled access to Anwyn’sno guilt at breaking into the safe, Gideon opened the door Holy ineered draws and balanced arrows Guns, of quite a few types and sizes But of even greater interest was Daegan’s aht, looking at the dark movement of liquid inside There were knives, of every possible description, weight and curve He picked up abehind the knives, on another backboard, was the collection of swords He expected he was looking at weapons that an was born in 1310, they could be his--

Gideon dropped and rolled a second before the va hiet the sofa between theed Daegan’s shirt, but that was as far as he got Daegan had hiainst Gideon’s throat A nice six-inch wooden blade that could punch right through the neck

"It’s good manners to ask a man before you handle his weapon" Before Gideon could think of a suitable retort to that, Daegan backed off and tossed hiht it, he realized it was his oooden knife "It served the purpose you wished," the vampire said briefly "I took Barnabus’s blood with it, though I a facility until we are certain we no longer need him"

"Good" Gideon hadn’t expected hian had taken it seriously, warrior to warrior While he couldn’t bring hian seeed clothes, noearing faded blue jeans, the cuffs worn and frayed with age, and a white muscle shirt His feet were bare The casual, conteht make him seem as approachable as a Gap coaot an i Daegan’s daggers to the safe "What’s in the bullets?"

"Acid" Daegan moved to join him "They explode in the vampire, eat away flesh It won’t kill him, but it hurts Works for a distraction, slows enerunted "And these?" He reached out, touched a small metal capsule

He yanked his ar dervish at the pressure of his fingers, catapulting out of the box with a pinwheel of lethal blades Daegan caught the ball in a move too fast for Gideon to follow

Whatever he did retracted the blades and saved his fingers, though he noted a stripe of blood across three of Daegan’s knuckles

"A version of a throwing star It handles soer as you throw"

"Can it decapitate?"

"Nearly It’slimbs It’s difficult for a vaht back immediately As you know, several seconds are usually the only advantage you need, if you’re doing it right"

Gideon looked at the array of weapons againFucking awesoood arsenal"

"Man replaced the capsule and slid his hands into his pockets, heedless of the blood spatter he ht put on the denim He stared down at the weapons "With these, withBut I have no ability to turn back ti that had Gideon wandering, and had brought Daegan back out again, both of thes she , and how she’d shut them out

"You think she really wanted us not to be around her, or was that the fean arched a brow at Gideon "Anwyn is not like normal woahtforward as a knight throwing down a gauntlet As wonderful as that sounds"--his gaze returned to the weapons--"it means that she does mean what she says She doesn’t want us near her"

"Son of a bitch"