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Officer Mallick slu dazed "Oh, Jesus, fuck me Fuck ave hiht, Daisy?"
"Right," I agreed Total lie There are rules governing the eldritch world, and one of theenuine desire, can’t be coenuine desire? No It’s like true love "Everyone okay? I have to --"
My finger hovered above my phone’s screen "Look, I told you that you wouldn’t like it" I jerked ht to use dauda-dagr to escort everyone in there out here by ones and twos, and we still wouldn’t have any way to contain patient zero in there, or the first notion of why this is happening Do you have a better idea, Officer Do?"
He shook his head, and I hit the CALL button
Although I hadn’t talked to Stefan Ludovic in more than a month, he picked up iht?"
A wave of self-consciousness washed over houl, or as they call themselves, one of the Outcast, condemned for eternity to exist on the eiven him permission to taste iant preternatural spike of pure lust
"Uot a situation Do you have enough people you trust to defuse an orgy without losing control?"
Stefan didn’t hesitate "I’ll be right there You’re a mile or so to the north?"
"Rainbow’s End," I confirhouls and biker gangs were two things I’d go out of my way to avoid That was before Stefan Ludovic cae of the Outcasts, which, by the way, is the na--or y--to which , and related to but not entirely synony
Anyway, after taking over Pes Stefan did was issue a ban on selling drugs, particularly crystala cycle of huhouls, what he did was actually pretty huge Of course, it touched off a rebellion that led to a great deal of unpleasantness, but again, long story short, Stefan ca hi it scared me, a promise that he could shoays to experience the full intensity of my super-size emotions without risk
Two, I’d seen him die And not just die--die and come back That’s what happened with the Outcast They’re condemned to the mortal plane because neither heaven nor hell would have them
It’s complicated, and I don’t pretend to understand it Even Hel--that’s Hel the goddess--adies and all But the fact is, I watched a gunshot, crippled Stefan Ludovic impale himself on his oord so he could die and come back whole and intact, and I’m still a little freaked out by it
Nonetheless, when Stefan and five other bikers roared into the parking lot, I was glad to see the his helht Did I ? Consider it htclub, his pupils waxing large before shrinking to controlled pinpoints "I think this no ordinary bacchanal What passes within the nightclub?"
"I’m not sure," I admitted "But it see"
Stefan frowned "Could you identify hinize one another, but we can’t necessarily put a nanition "I’ll have to see hiht?" Cody interrupted hiaze shifted to him Without a word, he took in Cody’s disheveled hair and ripped-open unifor hat happened when a ghoul lost control As far as I could tell, that never happened to Stefan
"You vouch for your men?" Cody pressed
Stefan hesitated "Under ordinary circumstances, yes But if you succumbed to the creature’s spell, we are also vulnerable" His pupils waxed "We do have ordinary mortal desires, too Hoere you able to break free?"
"Dauda-dagr’s touch," I said, showing him the blade "But don’t ask me why"
"Ah" He nodded "Death’s touch offsets the drive toward life Perhaps you and I should investigate alone, Daisy If we can contain the source, my men can assist with the others"
His littering I recognized one of theuely fa a blond-haired boy who didn’t look older than seventeen But a For all I knew, he was centuries older than me
"Hel’s liaison?" Stefan inquired courteously in his faint, unplaceable accent, inclining his head in my direction
I took a deep breath, suddenly acutely aware that beneath the thin cotton ofand hard, and I could feel the thuhs Nonetheless, I had a job to do
"Okay," I said "Let’s do this"