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Luc cleared his throat "Nobody cares, Jane We’ve got more important matters to attend to here than your instant colad there’s a place you can go without those annoying things ringing for your attention"
Cole growled The olf alpha didn’t do hen anyone talked down to hisCain didn’t find very attractive as a lifestyle
"Will so irritated
"Fine," Cole said "The Cycler has struck"
"Already?" Only two little Indians left
The pack leader continued, "It’s hit the human media It’s bad Co with Tam," Anna said Luc nodded and kissed her, then she left the tent, going right through it in her ghostly form without Luc to hold onto
Cain looked away from the display of affection There was no reason to be jealous of his brother In the ed--a slow transformation that, over ties had happened in Luc as well He could only feed froiven up the freedoiven up what he was as an incubus
The derowled, and they all looked at hi I was just thinking"
But Luc knew him too well; the suspicion didn’t leave his eyes The man upstairs had royally fucked Cain and all the other demons he’d created They could either be free or happy They couldn’t have both Maybe Cain would never be enslaved by his own guilt, but he’d always known that if he took a mate, his freedom was over forever Luc had known it, too But he hadn’t cared That stupid witch had wormed her way into his heart What was it itches and their kind?
Luc couldn’t play around with others Not based on some internal moral code, but literally, it wouldn’t work If he tried to harm his mate in any way, it would only hurt hihtly he and Anna were linked Cain had discouraged his de up the freedom they’d lose In truth, he didn’t want theHe didn’t want to believe his punishment had been deserved or that it served any rehabilitative purpose Itwhen they reached the hive in Cary Town Cole took the lead--after all, they were his caves that his pack lived in The pack showed deference to Jane and Cole, but pulled back when they saw Cain and Luc
"They’re all right," Cole said "I told you, we have an alliance with the demons because of Jane"
Most of the pack relaxed a fraction at the reassurance, but the rest drew back and tried to et the television set up, please," Jane said The wolf disappeared down one of the cave’s corridors She returned several e cart with a flat screen TV on it into the center of thehall of sorts
"Please re quarters We don’t want to frighten them," Cole said
Mother wolves ushered children down a separate hallway Whatever was about to be revealed, the pack hadn’t seen it yet
"All right, brace yourselves There has been nothing but this on the news for the past hour" Jane clicked a button and the television blinked on
A newscaster stared out at them with a blank look plastered on her face as she spoke "The president has issued a state that everyone reed to another channel This one showed an ie of the crime scene This time a man on the scene spoke into a microphone
"Full infor released, but if the killer is trying to euess the grisly details The alleged killer released a bizarre letter directly to the media only thirty minutes before the body was discovered In this letter he see that he is Jack the Ripper Of course, this is quite impossible"
"Not everybody is that skeptical," Cole said "Unfortunately"
On cue, Jane flicked past several more channels until she stopped on a news special that clai case, up-to-the-minute and live
"This is anted you to see," Jane said She turned the volume up, as if it were necessary It see is important, make it louder, even if everyone can already hear it
" So you’re in the process of analyzing the handwriting of this letter?"
An academic type, with Einstein-crazy blond hair and thin-wire-riorously "That’s right And e’ve learned so far is that the handwriting is reinal Ripper letters We’ll need to do more intense study, of course, but if it’s not hiery"
"What do you ery Jack the Ripper has no doubt been dead for over a century"
The doctor looked at his hands, an e into his cheeks "We’ll see what the final tests say"
Jane flipped through the channels again, worry creasing her brow "You knohat they’ll find when they run the final tests Soery, of course, but you kno the le And that’s not even the worst of it" She stopped on another station where angry protesters gathered, chanting around a govern the truth We knohat’s out there!" protestors chanted They held signs that read things like: De us, The Ripper is back, Tell the truth, We’re not alone
Over the din, a pretty brunette in a raspberry-pink suit and leader of the protest group
The man she spoke ore flannel and had wild eyes "We’ve always known so his aric and witches and demons and vampires and shapeshifters and all the rest They’re out there They’re all out there, and they’ve been preying on us for years It’s time the truth came out"
The reporter raised an eyebrow "Could you elaborate on that thought, sir?"
"You heard me The world we live in isn’t the world we think we live in People need to wake up to what’s out there and fight for their freedom!"
"A-and what do you think the killer is?" The wo a train wreck, too
"He could be anything But he’s evil They all are We have to rally the people together, make sure the world knows, and stop this Stop it now"