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"Look out!" I shouted to Gibson as I dodged between vehicles I couldn’t see the shooter anymore, but I heard the crack of a shot even over the sound of blaring guitars, and thejust inches behind ood I duckedtarget as I could, using the vehicles for cover, doing my best to close on the wouishable fro over the sound syste back, I saw a cru pool of blood on the pavement a few feet away

The last words of the anthe in for a look around the edge of the portable radar dish I was hiding behind, I saw Lydia less than twenty feet fro toward the spot where the prince lay on the ground The door to the van was e Ivan lay collapsed in the open ground between his prince and the van, the vehicle behind where he’d been standing splattered with e and defiance, throwingfull-body tackle that sent us sprawling onto the paveood She rolled with the i free I rolled, too, gaininga defensive posture that put , heading for us She glanced at it and seemed to make a decision I readied for an attack, but she did so I didn’t expect and couldn’t have prepared for Reaching inside her jacket, she pulled out a ceraer than a half-dollar It looked almost exactly like one of the "boomers" I use, its spell released when the disk is s up beside her, the side door open and beckoning, she threw the disk to the ground, shattering it Her smile, as she turned to jump into the vehicle, was pure predatoryhappened I didn’t feel any spell I figured it must have been a dud, so I turned to help the fallen prince I was hefting hi frohter that was purely sexual It was the kind of laughter hts spent between silken sheets and just the sound of it tugged at things low in my body I turned; I couldn’t not

He was beautiful Not the twisted, frightening randly beautiful angel, with only the cant of his expression and the red tint in his irises giving any hint of the corruption beneath

A deht with it a fear that driedwith both terror and desire

He gave a delicate sniff and laughed again "Oh,And not a bit of faith to preserve you" He s a slow step forward, andto enjoy this I’ll have to come up with a suitable reward for Lydia"

I couldn’t takeinto my jacket pocket, I fumbled blindly for the switch to turn onto screeching, al clearly even through the thick denim fabric

He scowled, and even that expression was as beautiful as a cloud passing across the sun "I’m disappointed in you Do you really want us to be interrupted?"

"Hell, yeah" I’d et a breath of sound past h, were still busy This ti for the single-shot water pistol I kneas hidden there I didn’t haveto overwhelm my will I couldn’t hurt him Even if I’d wanted to And God help ainsta low moan from my lips and an ache to my loins Where was everybody? There had to be crews in the trucks and vans Security should be all over this

"Oh, they’re cohts "But I’ve slowed time I want to savor this Savor you"

Oh, shit

I started treun I’d been drawing Still, Iit out in a jerkywith my left hand