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Nadia doubted a spell of forgetting could wreck Elizabeth that badly Surely she would have some defenses But if Nadia intensified the spell, and had Mateo with her, they could probably take away so, no doubt, ic she was using now to hurt Mrs Purdhy Enough to undo whatever her real plan was

It orth a try

"Watch your back, Elizabeth," Nadia ot to work

As he rode his ic that still bound Captive’s Sound

He was Nadia’s Steadfast That ic’s true nature, one even a witch couldn’t ns and portents had terrified him, but by now they were all too fae, roiling fil that seemed to seal thelanced at the town hall, there was a strange, glowing energy around the building, alround, the concentric rings that centered in on the site of the Halloween carnival--the leftover target from Elizabeth’s atteun his s like that without a second thought

However, it becaot ready for bed Maybe Mateo was learning how to be a Steadfast, but there was no learning how to bear the Cabot curse

His Steadfast abilities allowed him to actually see the curse now, every time he looked in a mirror; it writhed around his head like a dark halo, one made of snakes and thorns When Mateo looked at it, he knew that Elizabeth’s curse ticked within him like a tirandfather, and great-grand back to colonial tio mad from the burdens of his visions--the ones that showed hi himself in the mirror as he washed his face and brushed his teeth He could take a couple of Tylenol PMs in the hopes of sleeping

Verlaine lay cru so hard that the sobs racked her body "How could you?" she said, to so he couldn’t see in the blur "You had to take this, too You had to take the only thing I ever had"

He tried to push forward, to see who it ho’d done this to Verlaine, though he still didn’t knohat had been done, what she ht have lost Instead Verlaine seee, h a forest The dead of night Twigs snapped under his feet, and thick oak trees and pines surrounded hie

In the distance he saw the arc of a flashlight sweep through the gloom, and he ducked down It was very important not to be seen Why? He didn’t know, couldn’t remember, but fear had seized his heart,to escape from inside his chest

But he wasn’t afraid for hi behind the trunk of one of the trees When she peeked around the corner, a shape in the darknessat her viciously The blow sounded solid, even wet--the crunch of bone in blood She fell so limply that he knew she was dead