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Alanced doith a frown Both swords were still blazing, but A to pulse It was al

"It is," Azriel coth to help hold her share of the net"

"Why can’t she hold it herself?"

Strength not right, sheshe was very put out by the fact

"She’s young in deer with both age and your continuingwith a deuess that option had gone out thethe minute I’d taken her steel and stabbed her intoat all honest, for alla demon sword, I really wouldn’t want to be without her now Having her so readily at hand had saved ets here quickly, then" I paused "Or can you and Valdis hold the Jorõgu her as we are takes riuess they weren’t--and they were doing it now only because Hunter wanted bloody revenge

"Speaking of Hunter, she approaches the front door"

"Meaninghave the proble her into the house" As a vampire, she had to abide by the old "invite only" rule

"Can she not telepathically order such an invite?" Azriel said

"No It has to be freely given"

The doorbell rang I shot a look down the hall and saw her silhouette through the glass panes "Nohat do we do?"

"I would suggest you get the door open, Risa dearest," Hunter replied, proving the keenness of her hearing yet again "Otherwise I will not be pleased"

"Kinda hard to do when the owner is unconscious" But I walked over and booted the cobwebbed heel of his shoes "Hey, wake up"

He didn’t flinch I tried again, harder this ti at Azriel

"I shouldn’t, but given the growing precariousness of the situation--" He paused, his expression one of concentration After a roaned and rubbed his eyes Then he saw us

"What the fuck?" He jerked upright abruptly "Who the hell are you two? And what the fuck is that?"

"That," I said gri way"

"Look, I don’t particularly care if you believe me or not," I said, voice tart "The fact is you have therooo invite Director Hunter into your house so she can deal with the beast"

He blinked "The director? As in, the Directorate?"

"Yes," I said, and o It wouldn’t have done any good, of course, even if I had been telepathic, because of the whole "freely given" restriction

But if he didn’t hurry, things were going to get bad pretty quickly The throbbing in Aer, as was my damn headache And I didn’t even want to think about the a to feel rather wet

"If this spider escapes the power net," I continued, "we’ll all be dao open the door"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>