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"What is that s went quiet

"The scouts report there was a giant incident near the Casino," Robert said, hanging up

"What kind of a giant incident?" Desandra asked

Curran’s face was terrible

"An incident with a giant in it," Robert clarified, and sawand then I was in the hallway, my feet in the empty air He’d clamped his hands on lacial "One thing I asked you to do one thing"

He was really pissed off I would’ve preferred it if he’d roared

"I’m sorry"

Soave me your word and you broke it"

"Yes I’ to save Rowena"

He opened his , broke your trust, I’m sorry," I told hiain Curran dropped me down and jerked it open "WHAT?"

A thirty-foot-tall bull with enorlared back at us with eyes the size of teacups Fla around its hooves The bull opened itsme to his chest, his back to the flames

The fire smashed into the invisible shield of the house ward and splashed back, falling harround Curran thrust me aside His human body tore and a seven-and-a-half-foot ht shapeshifters in h the hallway pasthis head off

"Alive!" I called after them "We need to ask hiore Curran Curran grabbed the bull’s left horn and punched the enormous bovine in the face The bull’s head snapped to the side, but Curran jerked it back and hammered another hard punch into its skull

Never ain, his fist like a jackha into the bone The bull atte to free its horn, but Curran held on and kept punching Blood flew from the side of the bull’s head Theto bulldoze Curran off his feet Curran locked both hands on the bull’s horns and thrust his clawed feet into the ground Muscles bulged under his gray fur, the faint dark stripes standing out like whip led, face to face, the bull’s ray The shapeshifters waited in a ragged semicircle