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I blinked I knew Ca, but I hadn’t expected that maneuver But I had my own battle to attend to I turned and sentinto the chest of one of the bikers as headed directly forit out of his flesh Tossing it aside, he barreled down on ht hi, he stumbled back from the force of the blow and I took the opportunity to rush hiround I didn’t have a blade in hand, so I grabbed his neck and began to squeeze But his hands were around

Everyone else was engaged, so I’d have to get out of this myself And the one way I could think of was to shift I forced it to come fast--it would hurt that way, but what the fuck, it would save art shrieked, obviously not expecting to find hi a hundred and twenty pounds of muscle, claws, and teeth

I leaned down and bit hi his neck with one victorious growl As soon as I so and raced over to Marroas backing up, trying to get out of the way S a couple of the de another spell I bounded across the rooan to stu to toy with her One good bite across her face and she was done

I turned back to pounce on one of Morio’s attackers He was pounding the other against the wall head first I bit the ankle ofhim off balance As he fell, I held hiing a knife across his throat Morio and Smoky finished off their opponents and we stood down, Morio and I shifting back into our regular for, Cahts and locked the door

After the shop was secure, Camille called Chase Morio waited in the front, while Smoky, Cager than one would think--in fact it looked like they’d rented the shop next to the as--if not bigger than--theyou’d expect to stock a sex shop, but e began tossing cupboards and drawers, we found evidence that the Tregarts had h the shop

Bottles of unknown potions--Caical--filled one drawer Another drawer held a handful of firebos of odd-looking co As she started on the desk, ruffling through the paperwork,I flipped it open and pressed Talk

"Delilah, it’s Chase We’re out in the driveway Let us in but don’t turn on the lights yet"

I leaned out to the front "Morio, let the cops in Chase is here"

As Smoky and I headed to the front, Morio opened the door for Chase and Yugi Chase flashed his light around and griuys did a nuarts Deht This shop is a front for sorcery Ten to one, Van and Jaycee funded it What do we do?"

"You’re sure they’re de the around at the mess

"Nobody They aren’t hu to co de crew come in here, take care of this The bodies…do you need to take theet rid of them We also need to make a trip to Otherworld to warn her about the fact that Wilbur may have inadvertently leaked that the spirit seals are with her" I glanced over at Smoky "To through a date book "I think I found so Most of the notes are actually business oriented--one thing I’ll say about Van and Jaycee, they’re savvy They were actually already in the black, according to the books Taking inevery week But that’s incidental"

"What did you find?"

She pointed to one of the pages "On February thirteenth there’s a notation for ten pm that reads SCH That could stand for Supe Coht pm--Vespa Let’s see if…" She flipped back a week or so "Yep…here it is Two pot theroup…they’re just the front You know Van and Jaycee set up the hits Anything that tells us where we can find theoing to know so happened here and they’ll retaliate even worse" I was now second-guessing our actions But we had no choice They’d ID’d us and once they ca, we couldn’t back out Even if we’d left the , they would have knoere on to this place

"Phone nu to take a little tiest you grab the laptop that’s on the desk in back I wasn’t sure what cables we needed to go with it" She pocketed the day planner and the address book

I slipped into the back and retrieved the coht be around Who knehether they kept their records on the hard drive or on a disk? When I returned, Chase was talking to a couple of his cohorts The bodies of the deo? The Tregarts?"

"Slanced at Ca the coure out we had a hand in it, but they won’t be able to tell ent down for certain" She motioned for me to follow her outside

Morio and Chase followed behind us Sha with a specially trained hazuards I recognized theed a o

As soon as everybody was out and away fro

"What are they doing?"

"Cleanup The guards will stick around to protect the--apparently they have a nuical techniques that standard hazood a plan as any There was a flash frouely like bleach, but with so

Caet out of here before Van and Jaycee show up We’re not prepared to fight theht?" I was tired, achy actually--today had been filled with soon all of us