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"I…I…you aren’t…you are, but…" He stuttered, looking totally confused "I’m sorry--I didn’t " I’d never seen Smoky blush before, and I rather liked it Then it hitlowered "No--I just…"

"Dude, she’s totally right" Vanzir snickered, quickly sobering as S to say, deiven Vanzir, but the truth was, after Hyto had stolen h we all told hi to the disaster that had followed

Vanzir shook his head and held up his hands "Peace, dude I’h It’s time to book" I picked up my purse--another loaner from Nerissa--and headed toward the door

Smoky stoppedmy lips with his own "Whatever you look like, wherever you are, you’re my love That’s all that matters"

And with that, ere off

Chapter 17

The Greenbelt Park District Community Center was as ratty as I’d been warned I stood outside the double doors, steelingGlory…and I was alone, and worried, and lonely Sucking in a deep breath, I pushed open the door and walked in

The rooe, the walls a pale brick I scoped out the exits--right where they showed on the map And the ainst the back wall should lead to a hallway running parallel with the event hall, as well as the other event rooms and offices, and two more exits

The room wasn’t full, exactly, but there were at least fifteen peoplearound, and I could tell they weren’t already members of the Aleksais Psychic Network because they all looked rather confused and unsure, just like I was supposed to feel

A table to one side held snacks--chips, cookies, several pitchers of neon pink juice Staring at it, I re and decided to leave the food and drink alone

A group of chairs were set up in a seh stools sat behind the table And a banner hung over one set of the double doors leading to the hallways that read: WELCOME TO THE ALEKSAIS PSYCHIC NETWORK JOIN US!

As I h the other set of double doors, and I stopped cold Halcon Davis, and he had three people with hiarts I could s like bikers, they looked like hunky Fabio types And that hen it dawned on me that every one of the people who had shown up ole roupies

Thatthe FBH population, more women were likely to seek out others when they had questions about their psychic abilities, and ed to explore that side of the the assault on the spirit de yesterday, and they’d died just as quickly as the woroup of victims had beenhesitantly I couldn’t appear too confident I needed to convince Halcon that I was searching for so I needed to become a victim, and that wasn’t an easy act for nity I hadn’t let hih he’d beaten my body Now I had to mute e of the group, checking out their energy So to do A few seemed to have some sort of power, and a couple of the to look interested, but standing apart so Halcon would notice lamour but was cautious about howit, they’d suspect so The Fae who had come here had probably not bothered to cloak up, but they’d been genuinely interested

I suy from the Moon Mother After a lanced over at Halcon He was staring in htly confused look onto my face, I flashed hi around his neck was a sy that made me want to run up to hihth spirit seal Motherfucking son of a bitch Halcon earing the eighth spirit seal And the day that worked on Fae as well as mortals Holy crap, so that was how he persuaded people to leave their faive hi

He conferred with his bodyguard groupies and then headed in the group’s direction, but I kneas focused on ht in the trap of his bewitchh for e to say hello

Halcon looked so much like his picture that it was hard to believe he was almost two hundred years old

"Welcome, ladies Welcome to the Aleksais Psychic Network This is a recruitular members in a bit Meanwhile, would you like soive et an idea why you’re here"

This wasn’t the way he usually ran things I could tell by the startled looks on the Tregarts’ faces They were eyeing each other, as if trying to figure out what to do

As we allowed him to herd us to the buffet of chips and desserts, I left just enough rooe He slipped in between uest

"Hello, I’m Halcon Davis And you are…?" He held out his hand

Grateful the rune was i sure rip wasn’t too fir to back away Even the spirit seal couldn’t y of his aura It ave hiracious smile "I’m so excited to be here I’ve been…" I let my voice drift off