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"Go!"

Lily sla lot, tires squealing This tih

Chapter FOUR

THE NIGHT AIR stank of death And still, the coward did not show himself

Ty didn’t even turn to watch Lily leave; the squeal of her car’s tires on the paveive him some small amount of relief But the rest of what churned within him was raw fury, all the more potent because it wasn’t just a meal that some other vamp had decided to encroach upon It was hiswas about to get a very nasty lesson in how to conduct oneself around a Cait Sith

The ani the sa stor twenty degrees in a h not as warm as a mortal’s, escaped his mouth in a srowled, staring unblinkingly at the darkened sports fields where he knew the interloper was hiding His cat’s eyes picked up nothing, no hint of , hard years of experience, had never failed hiinning to course through his veins as he watched one particular patch of shadow divide itself in two, half of it pulling away into a shape that was unmistakably hulinting at hiry it was near starvation

Ty fought the urge to recoil There had been a tier was coe of itin shadow, living in fear of being discovered and brutally destroyed The htfarther, his fingers hooking into claws His stance was rigid, but hisIn truth, he savored the thought ofa kill It was the only way he could think of to release the tension that had been building in hiht

The red eyes watched hihtly to one side, considering hih it had been dragged through gravel The words it spoke were clear as day, delivered in a cockney accent that brought back o

"It’s not you I want, kitty cat Don’t fancy getting a hairball The pretty one, though… she’s quite the prize"

Ty’s lip curled "She’s off-limits"

There was a harsh chuckle "Says who? This ain’t your territory Your lot don’t have territory Gutterborn, bunch o’ filthy strays I’ve known ood lowblood, but someone shoulda drowned your line at the first"

Ty let the words slide off his back like water It was nothing he hadn’t heard before He wanted to get this done, to get the kill

"This place is no one’s territory, coward And the woman is mine"

"The woman is worm’s meat, kitty And you will be, too, when I’rew audibly harsh, and thea chill down Ty’s spine that surprised hih-pitched and piteous, childlike,Ty remember siarbage

Enough, Ty thought The past was best left in the darkness

Ty crouched lower, sensing the i attack before the other va toward him, and as the old bloodlust crashed over him, Ty opened his arms to receive his attacker

The blow lifted hith and ferocity Then the two of theether as they sla whirl ofas the other va flesh, scents that were utterly overwhelan to water, and the instant his vision blurred, jaws snapped together less than an inch froive hile" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>