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"How do you plan to access this locker?" Azriel said

I scanned the building and noted the caically around the perimeter Undoubtedly, it would be a sie in a little face-shifting If Genevieve Sands was connected to Nadler, then they e locker It wouldn’t be hard to do--anyone with the right sort of knowledge would be able to hack into the security syste I wanted was for them to see how close ere We didn’t need another possible lead closing down before it led to anything--or anyone

"I guess hoe approach it depends on who is at the desk," I said eventually "If it’s male, I’ll flirt If it’s female, you flirt"

He raised his eyebrows "The last ti like that, you stomped out in what I believe you would call a snit"

"It wasn’t a snit," I replied, aer at a ti withwith you"

"That’s true" I gave a , I can hardly even remember what a kiss is, let alone sex"

"Then perhaps," he said, and stepped closer, "I should reh the kiss was littleI’d ever experienced It her than a kite and warmer than the sun, cherished and oddly alive all in one quicksilver hed in frustration when he pulled back

"Daainstmy protest "What you desire and what your body is capable of are two very different things right now" He gave"I hat you want, believe th any ht now, that’s ould be doing"

"The whole point of sex is to be taxed," I replied, exasperated "If you’re not boneless and replete afterward, then you haven’t put enough effort into it"

"What effort can you put into it when you are all but exhausted?" He raised an eyebrow, expression a hed softly, then rose on tiptoes and dropped another quick kiss on his lips "Believe ive you one hundred percent, exhausted or not"

"A pro as you do hold me, I don’t care" I reluctantly returnedin front of us "Can’t you just pull the infore locker fro the reception desk?"

"I could, but our sorcerer appears to have telepathic abilities, remember, and while it is unlikely he would sense any psychic intrusion on iven he is most certainly aware of my presence on this quest"

I frowned "Does thatis more a sensory intrusion than a uess you’d better make whoever is inside think we’re cops"

"That I can do" He placed his fingers under uided me across to the thick shrubs that lined one side of the nearby parking lot "If you wish to alter your facial shape, you will not be seen here by either the caht be able to stop people fro we needed was so a freak-out While humanity was as aware of shape-shifters as they were vamps and olves, very fe of the existence of us face-shifters

I flexed ers, then closed my eyes and pictured my own face--froht uptilt of my nose and defined cheekbones, to the fullness of my lips Then I replaced it with more rounded features, thinner lips, and very short black hair A black so rich it shone blue in the sunlight

Once that iic It exploded around me, thick and fierce, as if it had been contained for far too long It swept through e waver I frowned, holding the ian to pulsate, burn, and change me My skin rippled as my features altered, and ic faded, ripped

"Daainst hiet any easier"

"Given you continue to function barely above exhaustion, it is unlikely to"

"It’s not like I can do a whole lot about that," I muttered, and forced uys to stop creating havoc for a month or so"

"A situation that is unlikely I aress on finding the second key slide for as long as he has"

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