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The de and jerked the arrow froed itself so deep it took a couple of good pulls to get it loose I grunted against the pain, and cold sweat broke out on my forehead The tip of the arrow finally ca noise I collapsed to the floor and curled up in the fetal position in the puddle of spilled beer

From the corner of ht He lifted the tip to his ue darted out to taste the blood My blood I groaned and squeezed my eyes shut At that point, I almost hoped he’d stake uess that’s that" The deainst the hardwoods I felt hi close "You okay?"

My eyes snapped open Already,quick work of the wounds "Ah the heart with an arrow!"

"Hey, it’s nothing personal"

I levered ainst the wall The pain was fading but I felt drained I’d need blood soon to make up for what I’d lost "Here’s a tip," I said "Next tiht try apple wood"

The demon frowned "Hello? What do you take me for? An idiot? It was apple wood"

What little blood I had left inIf that was apple wood, why am I still alive?"

"That is the million-dollar question, isn’t it?"

"Who sent you?"

He ignoredme over "You should be incinerated" He sniffed the air "Wait a second, what the heck are you? Your scent is weird"

"Not that it’s any of your business, but I’m Lilim"

"You don’t sot that going for you, but there’s so else Sandalwood?"

"Geez, interrupt much?" I said "I was about to say that I’e"

His eyes widened "That’s fucked up"

"You’re telling me"

"So what now?"

I narrowed my eyes "What do youto leave and I’ure out who summoned you so I can kill them"

He crossed his arms and tapped his hoof on the hardwoods "Jeez, you really don’t know anything about this, do you? I can’t just decide to go back to Irkalla I have to be sent back"

"Well, go back to the person who summoned you In fact, that works well for my plan too"

He shook his head "Can’t do that"

"Why not?" I huffed out a breath, annoyed by this entire scene

"Duh I didn’tby a pool of lava in Irkalla and the next thing I know, I’ether "How did you knohat you were supposed to do then?"

"Are you sure you’re half-uys learned all about how this dehed "When a su occurs, the spell used is encoded with instructions In this case, I knew my orders immediately"

"And they were?"

"To test you"

"And by test, youlike that" He shuffled his cloven hooves on the floor "Like I said, it was nothing personal"

"Right" I placed the heels of rabbed my shoulders to help me I shied away, determined not to take help frorateful "Okay so we don’t knoho sent you, which means we can’t track him down and make him send you back Any other ideas?"

He tapped a hoof as he thought "Don’t you have any es"

His goat eyes widened "How can you not know any e father died before I was born and my vampirethe deet him the hell out of my house Pronto