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Lore leaped over the desk and wrenched the de crack, a twitch, and the thing slumped, dead, to the floor

Satisfaction had been his pay her bleeding cheek "You okay?"

"I’ll live Thank you" She looked down at the dead demon "I quit" She stalked off in a huff

Well, hell He stood there, wondering if he should search for the two brothers or not He’d heard that Wraith was off trying to save his life, but Lore knew daood and well there was no cure for the poison his partner had dosed Wraith with The guy was as good as dead

But the other two… he needed to find the had set up the payment schedule had specified that all three must be dead in order for the uy had been specific He’d had one hell of a bug up his ass about these brothers He’d never said why he wanted them dead, but then, Lore hadn’t asked Didn’t care He had a job to do But really, in his thirty years of killing for money, he hadn’t come across anyone so desperate to see soements for it to happen even after they themselves died

Lore and his partner, Zaw, had received a third of the money up front, but the rest wouldn’t come until the brothers were verifiably deceased

Zaw’s death had thrown a kink in that plan Lore had been helping out the Byza out the brothers They’d been in contact via radio earpieces, and Lore had known exactly when Zaw had been taken out

It had sounded pretty gruesome As far as Lore could tell, Zaw had been eaten by a olf

Nasty

Lore ht be an assassin, but only because he was good at it And because he couldn’t do anything else The demon world didn’t want him, and neither did the human one As a half-breed, he was trash in either place

Oh, and because he ned by a demon who pimped Lore’s services out and demanded a cut of the money Or else

He looked down at his hand, covered by a leather glove to protect people froh the leather if he tried, but he didn’t have his kill skill turned on right now, so no one here was in danger No one but the brothers he was after

So screamed, and si hiloved hand and turned to the Harrowgate

"Lore!" Ge fine Goth chick jogged toward hiainst her ample brsts

What a stroke of luck it had been to run into her in the parking lot the other night He’d stopped her to ask a few questions, but there’d been a spark there, a tangible one he hadn’t felt with a fe ti a partner he liked during sex wasn’t so sex that he’d been paid to eliminate… that was a little different

But Gem had fascinated him, and besides, she knew a lot about the hospital--and about his targets He’d had a priotten to hang out with the sexiest feood intel

Last night he’d gone to her apartressive human at the elevator, and she hadn’t wanted to talk

Apparently, she hadn’t donewith the human otten Lore worked up and, at the same time, pissed off He wanted Geht be

Hey, baby, yeah, that’s right… we can get down to it, but never love on Oh, and I can’t touch you at all witheven through the glove But yeah, just keep doing that thing with your rave…

"Ge her out of the way of a thrown chair "You didn’t mention your hospital is a war zone"

She blew out an exasperated breath "It normally isn’t This is--" She broke off to yell at a horned de bloith a vaown "This is insane"

"Good to know this isn’t the normal state of operations"

"Not at all" She frowned "I need to go, see if I can help get the Haven spell back up"

"I’ll see you later, then"