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The knife fell fro thelanced back at Nathanial, someone stood in her line of vision
"Why hello, Denise," Rau his vision on every vehicle that even remotely resembled an SUV He’d flown over the whole bloody principality twice and yet still hadn’t found it
What if Denise ditched the SUV and took another car? She had a gun, after all; it would be easy for her to force so for the SUV was a waste of tiht cost Denise her life?
Crispin fleell Cat searched on the ground with Oliver, as neither of them was able to fly It had been aln of Denise or Nathanial
Could she have gotten out of Monaco that fast? Which direction would she have gone in? Da sod wasn’t worth it!
"Mencheres!" Spade suddenly said out loud He ai on his mobile on the way down
"Did you find her?" were his sire’s first words
"No," Spade said shortly "But can’t you track her another way? A fewto you anymore, but have they returned since then? Or can you use your power to see where Denise is now?"
It sounded like Mencheres sighed "My visions haven’t returned I see nothing anymoreand neither can I use one from me"
"Why the bloody hell haven’t you found a way to fix that!" Spade al him irrational "I’ve never once asked you to use your power for me before Why nohen I need you theup before Mencheres could reply, wanting to keep his line free in case Denise called She still had thewith the gun Spade tried to calain Fate couldn’t be so cruel as to do this to him twice, could it?
Or perhaps Fate was exactly this cruel, letting hiain have death snatch her from him
Rauht brown hair blowing in the cold breeze co off the water He wore jeans and a T-shirt with "Got Brimstone?" emblazoned across the front of it If she didn’t knohat he was, Raum’s bizarrely normal appearance wouldn’t make her look at him twice But she did knohat he was, and the smell of sulfur enveloped her like an unwanted embrace
"You dare call me here, so close to salt water? You think that makes you safe? I’ a step toward her "You took advantage of reement - "
"Raum," Denise interrupted "Look behind you"
The deh echoed out He bounded over to Nathanial and seized hi him around with the same sort of uninhibited exuberance that Spade had twirled her with just the other night
"Nathanial, ain!" Raum exclaimed He even kissed Nathanial full on thesound "Ah, you taste so despairingly sweet I intend to have such fun with you, you know that"
Nathanial cried out at so the deh Raum’s back, but whatever it had been, it was painful
"You think that hurts?" Rauly cheerful to so so low, Denise could barely hear hiony is, you deceitful little filth, but you will Forever"
No lad for everything she’d done in the past two hours She couldn’t have lived with sending anyone to what Rauain with the de his time with Web He’d been a stupid kid who made a terrible mistake, but he shouldn’t have to be eternally punished for it
And if she lived through what she did next, she’d stop punishing herself, too For letting Randy get killed, for the eall of it It’s tiiven, Denise realized More than tiet out of here, but first I want you to prove that you can giveNathanial in an ehter than a lover would use "Oh, really?" Raum drew out "And how do you think you’ll have e in the de five weeks ago, but not tonight She
"You proht Nathanial to you, you’d leave my family alone forever And that you’d take these brands off and your essence out of ht say I’h, so why don’t you showthese brands off Or I run as fast as I can back to the va Nathanial"
A smile played around Raum’s lips "Quite the little firecracker now, aren’t you? I like this side of you, Denise It’s very attractive"
The way he emphasized that last word made Denise’s flesh crawl, but she knew that hy he’d done it Rauhtened, but if she let him rattle her even once, she wouldn’t have the nerve to follow through on the rest of it
"Take the brands off Nathanial Let ain Then take off o our separate ways, reed"
"Don’t do it, please," Nathanial begged Tears leaked out of his eyes, and the desperation on his face was palpable "That’s too quick Don’t you want to torture me when I’ll be able to heal over and over? Haven’t you wanted totime, Raum? You can’t do that if I’ht The demon’s expression had been skeptical when Denise finished talking, but after hearing Nathanial, he smiled with such malevolent anticipation that part of her wanted to run away froht of it Don’t you dare, she ordered herself You can beat hiht back
"Why, Nathanial, you have s decades, haven’t you? You know no matter what I do to you, it’s better than ill happen once you’re hu with you first, but - "
"Yes, yes, play with me!" Nathanial shouted More tears poured "I deserve it, you’ve earned it"
"But this will be eveninto a feral roar
Then Raum seized Nathanial’s forear those intricate tattoos, before he plunged his fingertips inside Nathanial’s skin
Nathanial screa That s seemed to fill the air
"Feel that?" Raum snarled "It’s the end of your imouges into her legs with her clawed hands, bringing a fresh spurt of pain In her e of one of the creatures from that New Year’s Eve Creatures so foul, so powerful, they didn’t exist anywhere but in the darkest real of blind chaos spread through her body, the same one she’d felt when she transformed on the boat This tiht it She fed the wildness, expanding it with all the horrible i on all the details of the creature that months of antidepressants, therapy, and distance froet
Her skin felt like it burst, waves of pain and energy wracking her entire body in lightning-fast blasts Only a sive her allance