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"You’re getting sloppy," she said, taking note of the twin punctures in his throat "Got yourself tapped"
So did you, by a de Cocky bastard was the only Guardian who didn’t bother to hide the shield symbol on his jewelry No, he liked to show it off, to strike terror into the hearts of the deet for deht need so help Soers rasping over whiskers he kept triht hilanced at Lori "You thinking what I’ that Jagger was so plugged into the cell’s leaders Tayla really needed to start hanging out at HQ otten an apartment to maintain the emotional distance she required, but she definitely didn’t like being kept out of the loop And sure, she could ader was concerned He was such an ass
The ass turned to Tayla "If you can contact your deht be able to locate the hospital"
Your demon Eidolon wasn’t her demon He was her captive Visions of hiain She shivered and tried to tell herself it wasn’t froood" She smiled, but her joy felt half-hearted The hospital needed to be destroyed, and Eidolon with it All for the good of mankind
She repeated that to herself as she hoofed it to the weapons room to replace those Hellboy had confiscated at the hospital, but for so as true as it had just a few days before
Nine
Tayla arrived at her apartlow of the sun on the horizon Hardcore executives were just now leaving their Wall Street offices Drug dealers were hitting the streets Va ready to suck innocent huh her veins as the hunt called to her Oh, how she wanted to be tracking and destroying hellspawn But her wound ached, and she had a demon tied to her bed
She entered her apartment cautiously, in case he’d pulled a Houdini Once inside, she peeled the tracking sticker--nothingand concealed it in her palm She eased around the door fraht of Eidolon lying on the bed, one arm nearly free from the chain still attached to the twisted et loose, but what shocked her was how Mickey lay curled on Eidolon’s washboard abs, looking content as the fiend petted the traitorous aniing on a beach and not being held prisoner "I hope you picked up so"
She dropped the bag of weapons she’d taken froe of live sheep and s a ss, but I have stale es"
His eyes caressed her, half-lidded and glittering with hunger that had nothing to do with food--or affection, which was so else I’d like to--"
"Don’t say it" The dark, sultry note in his voice hit her right between the legs, and she gritted her teeth to keep fro into the incubus trap "Is that all you think about?"
"Lately? Yeah," he said, and he didn’t sound happy about it, either
"Does it have so about?"
"S’genesis, and yes I’e"
He scratched Mickey on the belly, and the ferret rolled onto its back, practically purring The weasel was in sohonest with herself, she’d admit that Eidolon’s touch had made her purr, too
The bastard She moved to the bed and pretended to check his bonds When she leaned across his big body to test the loose one, she casually applied the sticker to his pager, a necessity since Stephanie’s ic worked only when attached to electronics Tayla’s brsts brushed his chest, the light contact sending up a violent tingle through her body
God, he felt good, even when he wasn’t trying
"You going to release , she peered down at hi as you held me in the hospital Why? You have so"
"You have a dog? To eat?"
Eidolon stared at her
"What? Why are you looking at me like that?"
He snorted "My kind has been terrified of you for centuries, and now I realize how stupid we’ve been"
"Excuse me?" The demon was chained to his i You kill indiscriminately You have no idea what you kill or why You know nothing about us"
"I know exactly what I kill," she shot back "Evil I don’t need a reason to do that"
He kept petting Mickey, the silence growing thick until he finally said, "We’ve always assuanized," he mused, one corner of his reat secret "But it’s nothing but a cult, isn’t it? The weak and uneducated being led by those with their own agendas Brainwashed le orders without question"
"So you think I’ of sonorant about the underworld?"
Overwhele puo The knife he’d used to cut off her scrubs lay on the floor, and she picked it up, tested the edge with one finger Hellboy watched her warily, but if he was frightened, it didn’t show
She suddenly wanted him to be afraid, to hurt as much as she did But she also knew that what she wanted wasn’t possible She could skin him alive and he wouldn’t feel the pain she felt on a daily basis Still, she put the blade to the pulse at the base of his throat
"I knew the nature of deravelly voice cut out She had to s several ti more pressure on the knife, until a drop of his blood welled at the tip He didn’t even flinch