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"He was all that I had! The only one who understood me, the only one who--"

Todd risked a s move!" Caed as she fought for breath

"Let her go, Calance toward Niol and found the des braced apart, hands loosely at his sides

Holly’s nails scraped over Cas kicked out, her hips twisted--

"Stop fighting"Humans are so daed killer any longer, it was the soft lover now

"No…" Cara "His scent…"

Oh, hell The guy was about to ht do just about anything for her captor

No, he wasn’t about to do it-- he’d done it As Todd watched, helpless, her struggles stopped She blinked and stood docilely in Carasp

"So dareed, voice taunting "That’s why your bastard brother was so quick to die"

"You were the one I should have hunted," Cameron yelled "You I should have known Cara wouldn’t have the guts to kill hiuts to kill" A proo and stand on your own to face us!"

"You really think you can take me down?" A sneer twisted his mouth "A low-level succubus and a huun was still trained on his target Ready for a head shot

"I’m about to kill you in the next ten seconds," Niol said, voice like a breeze "So what they can do, it doesn’t really matter"

For the first time, Todd saw a flicker of fear in the incubus’ eyes "Youher!" Todd yelled

But Niol just said, "Either way, you’re dying tonight"

Shit If Niol started using his powers, he was going to have a dead reporter headlining the stories on the news for the next teeks, and the Other world really would be out in the open for all to see

He turned his head toward Cara He needed her help, and they’d have to move fast, before Niol attacked

A distraction

Her eyeswith trust Her head htest of inclinations

She stared at the reporter, then dropped her voice low as she said, "Fight him You don’t want his touch You don’t like his sic flowed in Cara’s voice Power Would her suggestion work on Holly? Hell, Todd didn’t know--and fro, it didn’t really e flashed in his eyes as--

"Shut up, you bitch! Just shut the hell up--"

"Now!" Todd growled Komak’s focus was divided, just like he’d wanted

The perfect time to strike

"Burn, you bastard!" Cara screamed at Cameron, just as she conjured one of her sweet balls of fire and threw it at the incubus

As the fire spun toward hiled to send his oer at the swirling light

And Holly Stor to life then She snarled, screaround when she broke his hold

Todd was ready As the flame disappeared into a wisp of s nearby car alarht

The bullet thudded into Cao down "Fucking huain And again Now aiuy’s chest Would he still live? Didn’t know--Cara had said there was only one way to kill an incubus, and this wasn’t it--but he was just trying to do his level damn best to take the bastard down

The clip emptied and the soft snick of the pull on the eers He stared at the de in his body and--

Ca on his back as a pool of blood began to spread under his body Todd reached for the extraReloaded the weapon Cara started forward He snagged her wrist "Wait, baby" Her body treer or some twisted et Komak first--just in case the bastard had anyfor them

The reporter pushed herself up She stared at the incubus ide eyes

"He’s not dead," Cara said "Down, but not dead"

Good enough for the ti "You okay?" He asked her She was pale, and still so beautiful that she stole his breath

Even in hell

"I-I didn’t knoas him I swear, Todd, I--"

"I know" Soft If he didn’t have a homicidal demon about ten feet away, he would have taken her into his arms and just held her until that fear and pain vanished fro her--that would have to wait for later

"Niol’s the one who figured it out, he knew that Cameron had a brother, just didn’t know his name until I told him how--"

The incubus’ body moved, just a bit Twitched

Da ready to rise like one of those B-movie horror freaks

And why the hell hadn’t the backup boys arrived? Two cops were sounshots?

"It’s going to take ot to kill hi like some kind of cat as his feet made no sound on the cement "An incubus--"

So much for the bullets, but then, he’d known that "Can only die in the middle of one of those weird-ass power drains, yeah, I know"

Niol paused "Cara just tells you everything, doesn’t she?"

No, not yet

After all, she hadn’t told Todd how she felt about him yet

Another twitch of the de only when he stood directly over the body

Cara marched at his side

Niol took up a position near the demon’s head

Holly stood, rather unsteadily, just a few steps away

And as they watched, Cameron’s eyes opened Blood trickled froed upward

Todd fired six more shots Two into his forehead and four into his heart