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"Yes, but the cost of living is higher And I couldn’t be within a stone’s throw of a military base You kno I feel about ers could leave on that fragile throat, then sed pride "She used soul ic onlong to figure it out"
The sardonic look on the witch’s face vanished as if it had never been It was one of the few tihtened fro more Shiva the Destroyer, her eyes like his six-inch switchblade "Da bitch ass Goddamn it I should have known You have the stubbornness of the bloodhounds that abound in this backwoods But she did such a good job…" Her eyes became ominous slits "She used it on all of us I didn’t know she had the ability… Well, yes I did But I never would have thought Ruby…"
"Yeah, welco the porch She was barefoot, which increased the energy connection between her and the house Heat h the boards like a flash of interior lightning as the witch channeled her anger When he sensed the stirring of her sleeping succubi and incubi as they registered the formidable heat, he reached out with his own abilities to stabilize and soothe It was probably unnecessary, though, since Raina had good command of her impressive powers And, used to the volatile nature of their Mistress, the creatures probably rolled back over almost before her tantrum passed
The witch stopped at the porch steps, her hands on her hips "It’s stupid for you to pay for a hotel, even with your liht My cook ht fix you a decent steak Two inches thick and at least two pounds of ravy that’ll fill even your botto, since he always needed calories for his freakishly high metabolism However, the meat would have to bunk down in his lean stoht not be thehis added wariness of the offering and what lay in that house The Shoney’s all-you-could-eat buffet hed "You’re not the only one who operates on a code, Derek Stormwind My house has a life of its own" She stroked the pillar at the top of the porch, hand esture i a woenerous female hip "Even if I’d like to take a pitchfork to your tediously noble heart,what I can offer And, like every successful businessperson, I don’t ignore or neglect the advice of my assets This is sort of like that"
"I think I’ll find the motel"
"Don’t be such a pussy You came here because you think I’ll tell you what you want to know about Ruby I won’t, but that doesn’t s from me that will help you You already have So don’t pretend you’re not coreat sorcerer, but you have a dick, and that prettyelse about you"
"I don’t want anything your house has to offer"
"So faithful You’re wrong Everything you want you’ll find in here I promise you that What you do with it… that’s up to you"
Chapter 3
RUBY HAD CALLED THE COVEN PRIESTESS IN FLORIDA Linda Egret was not only Wiccan; she was an engineer and er at a nuclear plant Her technical, left-brain background was evident by her cautious and practical de Ruby considerably While she knew Derek wouldn’t train a coven to protect a fault line if they weren’t serious practitioners, it was good to confirm Linda knew her stuff, whichsent in as a kindergarten teacher to teach ABCs and wipe noses Derek was dispatching her as an expert consultant, aug a local spiritual force’s arsenal of skills She’d be teaching higher levels of energy eared to keep a fault line reinforced and stable Once she showed them the basics on that, they’d take it from there
However, even the estimated teeks away from her business required a certain ae was handled, because the facility was off premises, and she contracted with a trio of local cops to handle its open shifts for supplementary income John, the most dependable of them, would come open up the store for a few hours each day to handle shipe their Internet store from wherever she was The constant work to try to restock inventory from overtaxed suppliers would just have to wait, but she at least needed toentries and 4473 forer than expected and a random ATF visit happened in her absence She didn’t carry a lot of cheap guns, so ATF flagged her place a lot less frequently than they did the local pawn-shop, but if they called in for a trace, she didn’t want John to have any trouble locating the right infor every last detail of every firear sure she hadn’t peddled her wares to a six-year-old wanting to play Ra rap sheet There was evenher suppliers weren’t black-ot behind on the paperwork, catching up was like a root canal without painkillers