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"Rachel!" Trent cried out, and he went down under two va Landon on the floor, the court papers strewn before hiuards, the scent of excited vaun seemed too small, and I knew before the bullet left theto be true I had no time My eyes closed and I wished it had happened soled, but I couldn’t set a circle Not without being connected to a line He’d won The bastard had won

With a falanced off a bubble and buried itself in the wall

I tensed, feeling nothing but the sensation of tingles over my skin My heart thudded in the new silence, and I opened my eyes Someone had saved me Trent?

But it hadn’t been him My lips parted Corrip, shoving the handgun into hi before me like a bubble, but it wasn’t the expected red-tinted ever-after with shades of an aura, but a milky white

Shit The mystics

Panicked, I looked at Trent His face was pale as he struggled in the grip of two vampires

"How!" Landon sputtered, the papers scattered before hiotten "You don’t have a fa "Yeah, how about that" Everything I’d been working for to get the deone Even they wouldn’t listen to h me

"She ht, but the gun beside his eye kept hioons on him "You there Put the paperwork on the desk"

"This won’t change anything," Landon said He was right, but I wasn’t leaving without Ivy

"Get Ivy in here!" I shouted "Now!"

No one an," Corood option

Trent tensed as htened It wouldn’t take much The world would be a better place "Rachel! Don’t!" Trent called out, and I looked at hi Cormel’s eyes dilate in fear

"This isn’t who you are," Trent said, shaking off the hands holding him

"How do you know?" I shouted, and the whispers fro excuse for a person live because you askedbastard and you don’t know it! Why should I be any different from you? Why!"

I swear I saw a drop of sweat trickle down Cor seconds Trent thought about that Head dropping for an instant, his eyes rose to find mine The enormity of the past two days was on hiht," he said softly "Do what you want"

Corht shoot him dead and end it all

Son of a bitch, this isn’t who I a out in frustration, I shoved Cormel away from me I never saw hime down

"It’s yours, it’s yours!" I shouted as one sat on me and spun my arm around behind o of the handgun

"Get her off the floor!" Core cat, the master vampire paced before the desk, his fear just under the surface Landon was a hunched shadow gathering his precious paperwork as if it was diamonds in a mine But I couldn’t look away froleam in his eye and a cut under his cheekbone His suit was rumpled but the only fear in hi into kill me now?" I said "And you wonder why you walk into the sun when you find your soul" The soft sound of Landon shuffling papers almost made me sick, and I stared at Cormel defiantly when he jerked to a stop

"Don’t har, and my arm renched back until I saw stars "Put her in a box One that has holes so she can breathe Kala, and ht when I realized Trent didn’t have the say together enough to in to float If heto start back up, and this ti to hold back

Corht as he looked froain "Put theh"

Trent didn’t move as two vampires literally lifted his feet from the floor

"Which one is his?" one of theust

"I don’t know Kill the off when one of the vaht "I’ll get ed before ere pushed into the hallway,the shards of safety glass We had two vaic, Trent would suffer if I did

"Hey, Trent," I said as ere shoved past the onlookers and to the elevators again "Was this about what you wanted?"

"Apart fro my horses, yes Cormel now realizes he needs me"

We were at the elevators, and I looked at hi to be "Needs you? For what?"

His eye was beginning to swell, and he smiled as the doors opened and theyhim, of course"

Chapter 21

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