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"You won’t do that," he whispered back "You’d miss them too much"

Sin snorted and made the blade disappear into her pocket as she stepped back "Men are always overestier was gone, and he threw back his head and laughed "Coone a the crickets and sending the squirrels that had co into their holes in the trees Sin and Con ran toward the sound, and in just a few yards they were following more violent battle noises and the stench of blood

A lot of blood

The scent grew stronger as they rounded an outcrop of rock and found two dead people, probably olves, beneath a bush

"Wargs," Con whispered, confir her suspicions

"Born or turned?" She didn’t see any telltale marks to indicate that they were pricolici, but theOr blood

"Don’t know"

A screah the brush, not bothering with stealth, not even as they broke onto a trail and into the hter "Oh, God" Sin skidded to a halt There were two small cabins tucked away in the forest, but they , so axes and knives One round was soaked with blood, and a child lay dead on a porch A child A biga female’s head with his claws as she pleaded for mercy "Diseased varcolac scum" The words arped by his animal muzzle, but the hatred was as clear as the sky above

Rabid fury exploded in Sin, and she launched at the born wargs, whose battle gear set the knives took out one, and her Gargantua dagger ended another She lost track of tih the pricolici like a tornado through a trailer park, her concentration was fully centered on causing pain

Finally, nothing moved Sin stood in the middle of the small cas as large as aSin sensed the darkness in hiered her own, but for once, she was just nued to take out everyone before they’d fallen victim to Sin’s blades and Con’s hands

"Son of a bitch," Con said roughly His chest still heaved with exertion froht "They did it Someone leaked the fact that only the varcolac are affected"

"You think it was a Councilmember? There are probably staff hter and her aze, his entire body tense, his expression grim "It’s possible it was someone from UG, but I’d bet my left nut it was so I’m not sure their leader, Raynor, was convinced that SF isn’t a conspiracy to kill them And Valko… he’ll take any excuse to let the pricolici kill off the varcolac"

"This whole thing just keeps getting worse" A sudden, shooting pain streaked down her right arlyphs, a round sundial-shaped ashes that usually appeared in her der, a perfect Z that didn’t extend beyond the faded black lines of the circle

Con’s brow furrowed "Are you hurt?"

"No," she lied, because the truth was, she didn’t care Her little sting was nothing co she’d caused Con’s hand lifted to cup her cheek, and the tender caress of his fingers on her skinball, the way it cracked her shield of nuhtened and her throat closed up as all the deaths piled high on her conscience All of it was her fault, and she suddenly felt like she was drowning in blood

"I’ve got to fix this," she whispered "I’ve got to end it, Con My life can’t have been about death" "This will end, Sin--" He paused, his tawny brows drawing together "Did you hear that?"

She started to shake her head, but then a small cry breached the silence She didn’t wait for Con She sprinted toward the sound, and her heart nearly stopped when she sao in the open doorway of a shed behind the cabins She knew is

The feaze full of terror