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"Don’t know Might have fried" I yawned "Tired Hopedon’t drea Down a beach The water was a beautiful turquoise, but the sand felt hard under h Couldn’t rest because they were chasing me The Campbells They wore plaid and carried broadswords, old-fashioned cudgels and laptops The laird screamed a battle cry, then threw a BlackBerry at ered but didn’t go down Had to keep running

"Traitor!" Mag suddenly appeared in front offor pictures The paparazzi loved her and the flashes blindedout of a low-cut red dress, smirked at me Mara’s dress looked just like et that skinny

Mag pointed at et the red carpet Israel Caine will take Mara to the ball"

"Ball? It’s not a ball, old wo tooto win an award He’s up for best vocal by a duo" I dodged a printer, then caught a broadsword that missed me by inches I used it to slash a G in the front of Mara’s dress

"My beautiful dress You ruined it You jealous commoner! No handsome man would ever want to be seen with you on his arht, you know You could weigh ninety-eight pounds and you wouldn’t be thin enough for the tabloids, you chunkyMara with her, when Ian MacDonald and his surfers scrambled out of the sand dunes and surrounded ainst the Caainst him "We have his woman"

"Hah! That’s not my woman My woman has curves! That one is all sticks and stones" Jerry tossed a monitor at my face and it burned my cheek "Keep her, MacDonald Both of you can walk into the sun It’s what you deserve Come on, Da They’re not worth the trouble"

"Jerry, wait!" I sat up I heldcheek where I’d been hit

"Dah" Valdez frowned down at ot up again?"

"Afraid so And I wasn’t there for you Brittany was on her way out the door and threatening to tell Ray you stayed awake past sunrise I followed her into the hall, trying to talk her out of spilling the beans because I knew you wouldn’t want him to know" Rafe sat next to me on the bed "Just after I shut the door, I heard you screaht hit you It burned your skin" He pulled my hand from my face "Shit Guess it’s true what they say about vauys can’t handle the sun That video was bogus"

I shuddered If I’d made it all the way to the balcony

"How does it look?" I gingerly touchedand it hurt like hell "It feels horrible Bring me Ian’s invention I have to see"

"It’ll heal, won’t it?" He reluctantly got up and brought ed his butt No shirt or shoes, but I guess the fewer clothes the better when you’re stuck in a dog body for hours on end

"I sure as hell hope so" I grabbed the "mirror" but Rafe put his hand over ot to try to sleep again I won’t leave you for a ht here on the floor next to the bed You’ll have to step on et out"

"That’s not fair to you, Rafe" I teared up Thisanyway I have to know" I turned on the device and peeked Hideous I had an ugly red streak down the left side of my face Obviously the drapes had been open just an inch or two, but that had been enough to sear ertip How could I be seen on TV like this?

"Does it hurt?" He stood and walked into the bathroo with a tube from the basket of freebies there

"Like hell I hope the TV show’s h to cover this if I don’t heal in h" I hit the off button and shut the webca like a ht as well try a mortal treat out" He held it out to me

"Thanks, Rafe Will you do it for me?" I tried to think about the i awake during the day Rafe thought Ian’s video had been a fake, but MacDonald had warned us that direct rays of sunlight were dangerous We could only watch the day from safely inside somewhere Or, like Ian, froet the scoop Rafe was charned her paychecks aboutas Ray had guards to keep hi into a fiery death, heBut would it work like it should? My diet drug had proved to be unpredictable as hell

Noas n up for this I was just supposed to lose so?