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"Maybe," Minna says and crosses her other leg "Where did you say you came from?"

"We didn’t say," Isaac answers, "but we’re from Boston, if you’d like to know"

"About where at’s in Boston?"

"Back Bay," Isaac answers just as quickly, as though all of these lies have been filed away neatly inside of his head ready for this special occasion

I just wish he would’ve shared the details with Nathan and ain, it could be too that he really isthe way

Minna leans over and takes a donut fro white powder dusting her sloppy pink lips Her jaorks the food vigorously around in herbut her because it’s not pleasant to watch her eat She ss and then licks the tips of her fingers clean of powdered sugar, "It’s not easy to trap one of those bastards," she says

"With all due respect," Isaac says, "we didn’t expect that it would be"

"They can appear as anyone," Minna adds "They can be sitting next to you and you’d never know it"

I feel like I can elaborate a littleheard her very faewhat shein her living room at this very moment

"How do you know that we aren’t one of therins impishly and says, "Well, the obvious ansould be that your delicious boy here," she points to Isaac without looking at hiic word at the door" She nods towards Nathan now, but adds a curious little sain "However, the other two of you I know check out because you’re sitting in a trap and haven’t tried to kill me yet"

All of us look down at the floor and then up and all around us

Minna stands up from the recliner and waltzes around to the other side of the coffee table She looks down at us, watching Nathanto be covert about it

"This whole house is a trap," she says and then her shriveled hand coh violently Nathan’s body ih and presses intohis nose andcalain She looks down at us and continues, "You think being what I am, I’d let just anyone come into my house?"

To all of our surprise, Minna takes a seat on the couch right next to Nathan Even Isaac tenses up next to idity of Nathan’s body

God, she s farunderneath the skin I try not to think about being able to smell it, any of it, because I know if I try too hard, it’ll only get worse But Minna has finally made her interest in Nathanup next to hi out the inevitable

Poor Nathan I really do feel bad for hihs at his expense aside, because no one deserves this

Nathan seee in the sockets, his shoulders fallen coht up as if to summon some kind of wall between their bodies Thankfully, she hasn’t actually touched him yet

"I will help you," she says in a scary,for free"

Chapter 10

WE ALL KNEW THAT was co, but Nathan had dreaded it a hundred ti telepathically, so I open my mind to Isaac to listen in

"I’ll owe you one," Isaac says

"You’ll owe me more than one!"

"Just work your charm I’ve seen you do it Come on, bro, I’ll buy you a steak later"

"Just a steak?"

"Yes, an expensive one--Fine, two steaks then"