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They areto saveas hers

Fire burned as thenow poised to swamp each other until one was supreme, the other dead But I didn’t want the job

Al! I called, floundering Al, helphe alone could pull ive me for what I’d done Yes, I had saved theic to do it I was polluted, a pariah, unclean and reviled

Please, I whispered as the Goddess dug to my soul, and a sudden s open I was looking at a broken ceiling Trent was holding me, my head in his lap Al knelt beside him The scent of ozone was thick in the air, and my throat hurt "You’re here," I said, voice raspy

The instant of relief in the de, and he pulled back "Why did you do it?" he said darkly "Everyone knows you’ve got mystics in you now"

"You treacherous deasped as Trent stood, duet between me and Landon

"You will not!" Trent shouted as he stood over

Landon howled, red faced, as he did the sa, he looked at his hands

Trent becahed "You broke the lines, little man," the deloved hand reaching "Guess what? I’er than you"

The lines were dead JenksWhere’s Jenks?

Landonas his soft slippers scuffed

"Excuseout after hi up in panic, and then openedhi up atand his narrow face pinched

"I don’t feel so good," the pixy said as he rubbed his shoulder "Did in?"

The lines were dead The ever-after was going to vanish But the deinning to shake

Trent sat down besideyou ho looked at"

My attention darted tolike the devil, but at least the bleeding had stopped "Where’s Ivy? Nina?"

"About fiveonfrom the cold and shock

"Lucy?" I asked as he stood

"With Ellasbeth," he said shortly as he lifted me to my feet

The blood rushed fro I could hear noise in the street The lines were gone Magic was dead We’d be lucky to get out of Cincinnati before ood idea?"

Trent tucked a shoulder underCan you walk?"

Jaw clenched, I took a hobbling step to the door "I et out of here"

Nauseated and holding Jenks close, I limped to the door The deic to do it That probably wasn’t going to go over very well

Chapter 27

I leaned hard against Trent as the elevator lurched and settled My leg throbbed, and I cupped a depressed pixy tight toabout his kids, scattered over the city, and Jumoke and Izzy at Trent’s estate If he couldn’t fly, then they couldn’t either There were no predators in Trent’s gardens, but that wasn’t what Jenks would be worried about It was the natural ht, and there wasn’t enough of theathered her untold thousands of eyes to her and gone brooding so to kill le passed between Trent and me as the ornate doors slid apart Noise spilled in, and what little zest I had left for the day vanished as I saw the FIB hats and IS vests in the lobby "What happened?" I asked as Jenks perked up, a faint dust hazing him

"Looks like someone made a call" Trent scooped me up and carried me out when I balked There were too many people, and I was surevoices My bleeding leg was obvious, and Trent started for the front desk Both an IS and an FIB cop were interviewing a tearful hotel employee, and the restaurant to the left was full of sullen Weres One of therinning and giving an to turn, and I felt sick "There’s Edden," I said as I looked over Trent’s shoulder to the bar I le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>