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Alec and Reed roared in unison, their shouts reverberating in Eve’s skull with such volu else In slow hostly apparition, her white robes in tatters, her hair a sinuously writhingattack, then jerked in surprise as a heavy weight forced her forearhted by the htened on the hilt and her back arched up Hurling the blade forward like a javelin, she struck the yuki-onna straight in the chest The glaive pierced deep with a sickening thud

The demon exploded in a burst of ash

Eve continued to slide until she slaed fro to fall point doard her head She jerked to the side, rolling to avoid the blade It pierced the floor where she’d been an instant before Behind her, the glaive--no longer embedded in the demon’s body--clattered to the tile

"Holy shit," she breathed

A pair of steel-toed boots appeared next to her head, then a hand extended into her line of sight Looking up, her gaze met eyes of rich chocolate brown Once, Alec had looked at her with a heat so scorching it burned her skin She h for the both of the him out

At a few inches over six feet, Alec was as ripped as one would expect a skilled predator to be He was God’s most revered and trusted enforcer, and his body reflected that calling His hair, as always, was slightly overlong, but she would fight off anyone who approached hier to bail roused

"Did you note the lack of fire?" His voice--dark and slightly raspy--was pure seduction, even when laced with the resonance unique to archangels It didn’t sound that hen he spoke to her telepathically, which was sadly appropriate Who he was in reality was far different from who he was in her mind

She blinked up at hi to let ain?"

"Obviously not, since you’re not dead It was a lesson in faith"

"More like a lesson in ‘I am God, see me fuck with you"

"Watch it’ he admonished

Eve accepted his proffered hand As he pulled her upright, his powerful chest and tautly ridged abdomen flexed noticeably beneath his fitted white T-shirt She couldn’t help noticing stuff like that, even though she couldn’t touch what she was looking at

"What is it with demons and bathrooms?" she asked "Grion to kill me I swear I’ve vanquished at least half a dozen Infernals in bathrooon had been a courtier in Asmodeus’s court, but he’d killed her for Charles Grimshaw-- former Alpha of the Northern California Black Diamond Pack and father of the wolf she’d had to kill twice Deht of her thigh Her toes were squishing in the blood soaking her sock and puddling along the sole She would need a new pair of boots

He bent to exaotten here sooner, but I had to scare off the crowd of Infernals in the hall first"

"Crowd?"

"I don’t think the ice bitch was kidding about the bounty"

"What do you know that I don’t? You wouldn’t believe an Infernal without some sort of proof"

Alec had assumed control over the day-to-day operation of Gadara Enterprises--the secular front for the North Auel had been taken prisoner by Satan a couple of months back That meant Alec was privy to al that occurred between the top of Alaska to the end of Mexico

"The nue County has tripled in the last teeks"

Which hen she’d graduated fro was a coincidence "No wonder it’s been so busy around here"

He gave her a resigned look "It will get busier, if Sahts on you"

"With a free-for-all bounty open to all classes of de Oh waitI did" Eve put weight on her wounded leg and winced at the iony

Alec tucked his shoulder under her ar, smart ass"