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But his eyes said he was proud of the woman I’d become And my eyes said that I was proud he wasI never thought I’d hear Jericho Barrons say He said--

"Fuck!" Alina exploded "Mac, the Sinsar Dubh is here!"

For a moment I simply couldn’t process what Alina had said We’d left the Sinsar Dubh trapped in the boudoir It could only be here if (a) it had broken free of the stones, (b) found a body to carry it, and (c) escaped mere minutes after we’d left

I couldn’t feel it at all My sidhe-seer senses were co insideto locate it, then shot a frantic look at Alina and she pointed behind me

I whirled to find myself ten paces from the Unseelie princess we’d left cocooned in the boudoir

Herme of Derek O’Bannion when he’d been possessed by the first Book, revealing rows and rows of whirling, sharpto eat me, bite offthen abruptly a dark storht for ic, but I had the song, and I needed to sing it, now, to destroy the Sinsar Dubh once and for all I opened my mouth but the inky cloud the Unseelie princess had retched narrowed to a thin funnel of toxic dust and shot straight for it I claain so hard it hurtto intercept the dark stor into the beast as he moved

The cloud retracted into the Unseelie princess and, as I watched, stunned, Barrons twisted in midair, slapped a cri and had no idea where he’d gotten it froround his e kiss

He sucked the Sinsar Dubh right out of the princess’s body in one long lip-locked inhale

The Unseelie princess collapsed, dead, to the ground

And all I could think was, Barrons could kill with a kiss? I thought I’d knohat he was I narrowed my eyes I’d kissed that lethal mouth many times

He whirled and bore down onleft of , Mac, I can’t hold it long!"