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Did she think she was fooling anyone with that act? He said only, "I’ now, Madison Excuseher distance, as if she were a pile of trash to be avoided

When he looked down at his phone again on the edge of the parking lot, he saw that Skye hadn’t responded

It had been a whole two to three minutes, at most

Skye wouldn’t fail to answer instantly today unless--unless so

Or sounned the ot in his hile he drove out, he’d just fulfill Nola Haladki’s dreah the streets of Darby Glen, tires squealing on the asphalt, Balthazar kept glancing at his phone, as if soes

At one stoplight, he hastily typed, Skye? Did you get e? Are you OK?

She didn’t reply to that one either

Balthazar drove even faster, al else--which is why it shouldn’t have been so surprising when he zipped into an intersection at the same moment another car did

For one split second it rushed toward hi power of ilittering shards of broken glass

After that, for several long moments, it was hard to say exactly what happened when Balthazar knew that his car flipped and rolled He knew that he was suspended upside down by his seat belt for a few seconds that still lasted too long Although he could taste blood in hisvery severe to his resilient vampire body