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"Your own ineptitude, Investigator," said a cold voice from behindthe bird wo our backs

Before us stood a tiny woman--as short as me--with olive skin and a bald pate If she hadn’t been dressed in black leather and carrying dozens of visible weapons, she would have looked like a child in a coe eyes were shadowed, but they stared at Ryu with a cold intensity thather curious stillness and the power that, even now, I could feel crackling around her

She stepped forward from where she was partially concealed in the blasted doorway, followed by two e, towering well above Caleb, his gray skin covering muscles so massive they would have o ho But otherwise he had exactly the sauarded Conleth; he radiated stupidity, viciousness, and cruelty in equal , however, surprised antly muscled limbs were topped off by a perfectly sy of cherubic and e blue eyes blinked in the darkness, brushed by the soft golden curls that crowned his perfect features Ryu’s hand envelopedover Ca her with his eyes, and then turned to ainstInstead of that heady mixture of lust and the promise of pleasure that I was so used to froic pro based on pain, on cruelty, on bodies being taken to the edge of control and then thrown over that edge I shivered as beautiful blue eyes latched onto ht Quite the combination…

"Phaedra" Ryu said the word as if he were spitting "You’re keeping interesting company these days I hadn’t realized you’d been released, Graeaze away from my breasts to meet Ryu’s cold stare with a s ile huirl and I certainly didn’t do anything to her she didn’t ask for" The incubus’s eyes found ed"

I blanched as I finally put together one plus one regarding Grae that he must have been one of the Alfar’s exceptions to execution Which meant he was protected by someone powerful

"And the others?" Ryu asked, his voice furious

"What others?" the incubus replied, his voice as light and innocent as whipped creaed with a proh," the Alfar, Phaedra, announced, putting an end to Ryu and the rapist incubus’s pissing contest "You’ve gone back to the beginning, Ryu, which means you are lost Still, ation And yet, here you are, at the beginning"

The s weaponry She skirted our little group to join the two bird woan followed

"Harpies," Daoud leaned over to whisper in my ear My eyes widened; they weren’t what I would have expected "Kaya and Kaori The spriggan is Fugwat; he’s a brute Avoid Graeme at all costs--"

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