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But Cara didn’t just take froth, power "You don’t knohat the hell you’re talking about" And it wasn’t the deet about Cara She’s not yours to worry about"

Niol’s face hardened, his lips fir a family that I have left in this world Believe me, human, she most definitely is et real physical, real fast with the jerk And to think, he’d proht

"I don’t knohy she chose you," Niol said, and his brow furrowed "She could have anyone"

Yeah, like he didn’t know that fact But his goddess had chosen him, and he’d thank his lucky stars every day for the rest of his life

A life he wanted to spend with her

The realization was as shocking as it was sudden

"I’ve got word of a few strays in the area" Niol shrugged "Nothing too dangerous from the accounts, but--"

Strays? Niol had used that word earlier and--Jesus, ere the demons, some kind of unwanted cats?

"Mythem soon" Said with supreaet all the information you need"

"I’ll question them"

"If that’s what you want" One shoulder lifted "We’ll play it your way"

Todd’s gaze returned to the empty bar Cameron’s disappearance bothered him So he had alibis and he didn’t have wounds, that should have put hiuy and he’d always felt that cold shiver of awareness when he was near the de have you known Cameron?" Todd asked as he paced toward the bar

"Al as I’ve known Cara"

And that told hi?"

"Why?"

Still no answer Niol just couldn’t ever s easy

"Cara trusts him" But she also trusted the de endorsement "I want to knohy"

Niol pulled up a bar stool "Ca--particularly so for a sex deered a lanced back at Todd "Cameron’s mother left his father for a human, and, well, his father--Do type"

Well, well McNeal had told hiation, Caust for humans

Now he knehy

"His mother raised him some, when Cameron wasn’t on the streets, but she had a new fary young incubus

"Cara found his he should have learned years before"

He could see Cara doing that Helping the other man "Was this before or after her sister died?"

"Before Caht hand into a fist "I wasn’t ht"

So he should be grateful to the de in his ears

"Daet back to Cara Needed to get back to her

"Soon" Niol’s black gaze flickered over hiht’s over"

Cara cut through the water, her eyes wide open, her arlides as her feet kicked in quick arches

She broke the surface, drawing in a deep breath and gazing straight up at the starry night She’d needed this, needed to wash away the horrors of the day and--

"I thought you liked to swi around, one hand lifting to her chest Awareness came too late as the man stepped fro fro over his face "You like the dawn, don’t you? You don’t usually swiainst her chest Hard She ignored his question, saying, "Caet back here?" The patrol officers were right in front of her house, and no ould they have just let hihter "Co around the edges of his mouth "I’m a deaze flickered to the nine-foot privacy fence that walled in her property "Even one like yours"

Cara swam toward the ladder

"The police pickedas he watched her with eyes that didn’t blink "Hauled me down to the station and that aniers closed over the ladder The metal felt cool to the touch She cli with a towel as the chill in the night air swept over her skin

"You don’t seem surprised"

She belted the robe in a quick er swept over his face "You’re the one who told them about me, aren’t you?"

She nodded "Cameron, I had to! I had to tell Todd about any incubus I knew in the area So them with the death brand on their chests"

"And you think I’ht you knew me Inside and out"

Hurt was in his voice "Cameron…" She stepped toward him

He immediately moved back "Do you think I’m that someone?"

His voice blasted her Well, damn, shouldn’t the cops hear that? Her chin shot up "It doesn’t matter what I think, don’t you see that? I knew of three incubi in the city--I had to tell Todd about thes have to stop! I couldn’t just let--"

"I never told about you" Almost whisper soft

"Wh-what?" Her arms wrapped around her stomach as the wind seemed to chill even ht had taken a turn on her

"Not a soul" He raised a hand Pointed his index finger at her "I knehat you did to him, but I never told"

Maybe it wasn’t the wind that was cold Maybe the icy tendrils were co from within her "Told what, Cameron?"

"That you killed hi another step toward him

Cameron stiffened

"I didn’t kill anyone," she told hi in her heart She hadn’t, but it had been a da about Lance, he killed hiuy was on her in less than a second His hands wrapped around her are "You killed him You seduced him, slipped into his mind, and then you killed hiht When his body was found, your scent was all over him" He shook her once, hard "I knohat you did!" A vein bulged near his teht then

"Let go ofcal iet their friendship and show hiht