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Chapter 16

"What do you think?" I asked "Is it too ave me a critical once-over "You’re dressed up as an ice queen do as too th mirror that had been set up in the den in Fletcher’s house Trust Finn to perfectly describe etup I wore a pair of ice blue leather pants that laced all the way up s on both sides A leather bustier done in the same color and tricollar set with silverstone squares ringed my neck

A leather jacket covered the bustier, which let me tuck my two usual silverstone knives up ainst the small of my back, while two more waited in the sides of o to domy lashes and lips the same cold color The dwarf had also pulled ht ponytail and sprinkled silver glitter over the slicked-back locks All put together, I looked like I was in the ht of cold sex and frostbitten pain

"Where did you get all this leather frole

"Froression," Finn said "Where else would I get such co the Pork Pit, Finn had used his various connections to find out that there was a theht’s ed to get photos e in order to help Owen and me blend in Hence all the leather

"You look like a completely different person," Bria said from her spot on the couch

I turned and looked at my baby sister, who had an unreadable expression on her face After closing down the restaurant, I’d co on-and exactly what I was up to Bria hadn’t liked it, hadn’t likedanother run at Mab, but there wasn’tcaptured by Gentry or one of the other bounty hunters andthe mess ere in that much worse

"I don’t know I think I like Gin’s costume a lot better than mine," Owen rumbled and stepped into the den

If I was the ice-queen doht He also wore leather pants, although his were black and topped by a jacket and ical metal clanked with every step he took The two of us looked like a pair of sexual deviants ready to get our freak on, but according to Finn’s info, our costu the tamer ones at the party

Owen and I were already late, so I checked my knives one final time, then turned to him

"You ready?"

Owen nodded "As I’ll ever be"

"We should go then," I murmured

I looked at Finn, then turned to Bria My sister hadn’t saidready, but worry tightened her face-worry for me The emotion made my heart twist and soar in my chest all at the same time Despite what I was, despite all the people that I’d killed, Bria had somehow come to care for me, at least a little bit It was more than I’d ever drea that I’d suffered over the years hile

Bria leaned forward and grabbed ic For a , but then I felt her cool power trickle into the silverstone ring on iven me for Christmas A slender silver band with a spider rune stamped in the middle of it

Lots of elementals wore jewelry made out of silver-stone, since the ic By wearing pieces of the metal, elementals could have access to an extra influx of power should they need it Like, say, if they decided to duel another eleainst the other person’s It wasn’t cheating, not exactly, since everyone did it, but it was still sneaky

The two rings on Bria’s left index finger huic, as did the pri was small and thin, but the silverstone still soaked up quite a bit of Bria’s power, until it felt like a band of Ice pressing against my skin The sensation wasn’t an unpleasant one If anything, it co a piece of my sister with me into battle

"Thank you for that," I said "I had been , but hadn’t done it yet I’ jewelry"

"I’d noticed that," Bria said in a wry tone "And I know that you prefer to use your knives, but you just never knohat you ht"

I nodded, not sure what to say I didn’t want to offend my sister or push her farther away, but we both knehat I was planning to do tonight-kill Mab in cold blood the way that I had soshe’d done to us, part of Bria would have preferred to handle the Fire eleal means, to throw her in jail and let her rot

Not me I just wanted Mab dead, and I wasn’t picky about how she got there

"Just-just be careful, Gin Okay?" Bria asked, staring at ers with mine "I always am, baby sister I always am"

Thirty minutes later, Owen steered his BMW up the driveway that led to the Five Oaks Country Club, where theheld Five Oaks was the snobbiest, hfalutin country club in Ashland, and only the insanely wealthy and powerful were allowed to be mes of the club The last tio when I’d been stalking Alexis James, the Air elemental who’d tortured and ed to oute and escaping before I could kill her I couldn’t afford to be that sloppy tonight, not with Mab, or I’d be the one ouldn’t be leaving the club alive

"You ready?" Owen asked in a soft voice

I let out a breath and nodded "As I’ll ever be," I said, echoing his words

Owen leaned over in the darkness of the car and pressed his lips to mine For a moment that was all too brief, I just letainstdownhis rich, earthy scent fill my nose

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