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"The effect is temporary I’ll take back the artifact once we’re clear of the hospital"

The BMW slid intoup some sort of steep incline Once they leveled out, she wondered if they were out of range of the Haven spell, and then decided that puht not be the best idea she’d ever had

Silence descended on the leather-scented interior like a shroud Tay bounced her legs Tapped her fingers on the ar even and steady when all she wanted to do was fight the darkness, silence, and unknown

"I should have sedated you"

"I’h" Like when she drove a blade through his throat at her first opportunity

"I already do"

She really wanted to glare at hi me? I mean, why didn’t you let me die?"

"I’m a doctor"

"Bullshit"

"I’m not a doctor?"

"You’re a demon, smartass, so you can’t tell me that the hypocritical oath applies to you"

"Hippocratic, and it doesn’t"

"A, I was being sarcastic, and B, you didn’t answer my question"

She felt the vehicle take a sharp turn and sensed that he’d steered a little harder than he needed to "I don’t owe you any answers"

"Christ," she hter made her ju so would go against hospital policy, which I wrote and can’t violate without losing the respect ofthe truth, but then, demons lied as easily as they killed "Knohat I think?"

"Please," he said drolly, "do tell et inforis You’d have been stupid not to"

"That was part of the original plan, yes But since you aren’t hanging froeon with rubber floors that hose clean, you can assued"

His tone told her there was a story behind the rubber-floored dungeon, a story she figured belonged shelved alongside the only books she owned, tattered, used copies of Stephen King novels "Does the change of plans have so your brother was talking about?" When he didn’t answer, she pressed on, because the dark silence washer nuts "What’s a Justice Dealer?"

"My foreance deeance dee on another Justice deenerally species and breed Councils And, unlike vengeance de action"

Interesting Deation?"

"Sentences are meted out based on the cri, it’s the accuser who is dealt the punishment"

"We? So you still do the job?"

"No Since I’m not Judicium, my JD poeren’t inherited and had to be bestowed upona de her scrub top rasp against the war better to do than talk? Besides drive, Ia Justice Dealer But because I grew up in a Judiciuifts make us naturals in the field of medicine, so as soon as I earned my doctorate, I relinquished ether How many brothers do you have?"

"Total? Dead and alive?"

Well, this ard "Umboth?"

"I had forty-four" Another sharp turn had her sliding in the leather seat "I’m down to two I’m the eldest"

"Firstborn?"

"No Twenty were born before I was, but only one survived to s’genesis Roag was killed two years ago Now, if I take back the artifact, will you shut up?"

"You betcha"

He pried the stone froht nearly blinded her as effectively as the darkness

"Obviously, daylight isn’t an issue for you"

"My species isn’t heliophobic"

Of course not, because sensitivity to the sun would be a weakness, and fro weak about Hellboy Not with thoseabout hience Sex Definitely sex Her body reles across her skin

"You got the heater on? It’s like a furnace in here," she muttered, and he smiled as if he knew exactly what had jacked up her body telanced out the side here people were taking advantage of theon corners, clueless about the horrors that took place right under their noses She didn’t recognize the part of the city they were in, but she did make note of the street nais

"Where do you live?" he asked