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Luc s "Surprised? You shouldn’t be Surprised about anything, that is"

He stood, and I was shocked to discover that he was almost as tall as Dae cab It won Lost the coolest bike evah and a lot of blood, but lucky me, my childhood friend was an alien"

"Ho did you get away fro, I wanted to add

Luc moved over to the table, his steps srin icked, al "Never trust the one who excels Isn’t that right, Blake?"

Leaning against the wall, Blake gave a lopsided shrug "Sounds about right"

"Why?" Luc sat on the edge of the desk "Because eventually the pupil becomes smarter than the teacher, and I had soent teachers So" He clapped his hands together "You must be Daemon Black"

If Daemon was surprised Luc knew his name, he didn’t show it "That would belashes lowered "I’ve heard of you Blake’s a big fan"

Blake raised a er

Dae"

Luc cocked his head to the side "And what a fan club--oh, my bad, I didn’t introduce you to your fellow Luxen all-star This guy goes by Paris Why? I don’t know"

Paris shtly as he extended his hand toward Daemon "Always nice to meet another not bound by old beliefs and unnecessary rules"

Daemon shook his hand "Sahed "Long story for a different day--if there is a different day" Those extraordinary peepers slid back to me "Do you have any idea what they will do to you if they realize you’re a fully functional hybrid?" He tipped his head down, grinning "We are so very rare Three of us together is actually quite aination," I said

"Do you?" Luc’s brows rose "I doubt Blake has even told you the half of it--the worst of it"

I glanced at Blake His expression went on lockdown An icy wind ran up

"But you know that" Luc stood and stretched, like a cat after a nap "And still you are willing to take the huge risk of going into the hornet’s nest"

"We really don’t have a choice" Daeive us the codes or not?"

Luc shrugged, running his fingers over the stacks of hly "Other than pissing off Daedalus, we really don’t have much to offer"

"Hmm, I don’t know about that" He picked up a cluster of hundreds secured with a rubber band A second later, the edges of the bills curled inward, paperre-light-for-heat-and-fire thing completely passed me over "What can we do for you?"

"Obviously money’s not an issue," Daemon added

Luc’s lips twitched "Money isn’t needed" He brushed his fingers off on his jeans "Power isn’t, either Honestly, the only thing I need is a favor"

Blake snapped off the wall "Luc--"

His eyes narrowed "A favor is all I want--one that I can collect at any tiive you all you need to know"

Well, that sounded easy "O--"

"Wait," Daeree to a favor without knohat that favor is?"

Luc nodded "Where’s the risk if you know everything?"

"Where’s the intelligence if we don’t?" Daehed "I like you A lot But e"

"God, you’re like the preteenlike that" He flashed a beatific smile "What you--all of you--don’t understand is there are things irlfriend or a friend…or even ending up under thebehind the winds, and the winds are going to be fierce" He looked at Daeovernment fears the Luxen, because they represent mankind’s fall from the top of the food chain To fix that, they’ve created so about ordinary little baby hybrids"

I shivered "What are you talking about?"

His purplish eyes

Paris folded his ar to deal, there’s the door"

Daeed looks I honestly didn’t knohat to say It seriously was likea deal with the mafia--with a creepy kid-mafia boss

"Guys," Blake said "He’s our only chance"