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"Refine further Where?"

She rapidly sorted through everything she’d learned about the place during her brief sojourn inside with Christian, came up eh of the mansion to isolate a preference for any one location over another"

Barrons said, "Even if you had, you don’t think like awho’d built an infinite house forfor her every bloody time I wanted to see her I’d have a way to summon her And I knohere I’d want her The Book is headed for the concubine’s bedchamber"

Then they were at the brick wall, behind the bookstore, at the very spot she’d once made the decision that had cost her five and a half years of her life

"He kept calling her ‘the queen’ so I was thinking it had to be so it deliberately to mislead, and it had been effective

"Imore information than he’d intended," Barrons said "He needs us He can’t touch the spear He can’t kill the queen Withholding infor"

"I spoke with Alina, while waiting for you She confirmed the Sinsar Dubh’s presence at this precise spotis Mac?"

"No, and I didn’t tell her Every second counts Move" He surged into the Silver concealed in the brick wall and vanished

Squaring her shoulders, Jada leapt in after him

A partially eaten Rhino-boy lay on the floor in the white roo sturied Unseelie, Jada dashed into the next Silver after Barrons, with Fade and Lor close behind A chill of déjà-vu kissed her spine but noas no time for memories of the day fourteen-year-old Dani had leapt so fearlessly and blindly into one of these very Silvers, only to end up adrift in the Hall of All Days Nor was it time for memories of the afternoon she’d entered one of the Silvers with Christian, and loosed the Cri to leap into whichever ones she’d been lucky enough to find, discovering the hard here they led, she harbored a special hatred for the Silvers

As they raced into the White Mansion, down dazzling alabaster corridors with high arched ceilings and tall, sparkling s that fraarden and ice-crusted maze, Barrons opened the pouch he carried and tossed one of the stones over his shoulder for Lor to catch The tall muscular blond palmed it and slipped it into his leather jacket