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Katia’s eyes widened as she looked up at me, but she didn’t speak, just processed the new infor quiet

I wondered how Molly was going to feel when she found out that Alonzo, her worst nighth Molly had stopped Alonzo, his legacy had lived on, and his "son" had continued selling the young women he kidnapped and turned

So many wo?" I blurted to Katia "How could you stand to?"

For ato answer, but she’d proive us any information anted "Do you know," she said slowly, "how a boundary witch activates her powers?"

"No"

"She has to die And I did I was stabbed"--she touched her side, though I doubted she was conscious of it--"and buried Oskar, he dugburied alive, then demanded twenty years of service as repayment" Her face hardened "It was only many years later that I learned Oskar had ordered my attack in the first place"

And I think that was the er cared if she walked away from this scot-free In fact, I wanted her to

"When was this?" Jesse asked

She so"

"That’s why he ca "He needed you for his revenge"

She nodded "I did not suspect it then, but you et new girls, and start over in a new city We did this before He likes to get new girls every ten years, so there is never a time when he has only new people or only veterans" She sounded disgusted "This is also probably why he has not yet come to ‘rescue’that you could say for both Oskar and Alonzo, they always keep their promise to release theireht where the necklace would have hung if it hadn’t been stuffed in er what little vampire authority ree," I pointed out "He could have just killed Molly"

"The woman who killed his precious Alonzo?" Katia shook her head "No That would not be a fitting tribute Alonzo hie Soe in reatest wish is to be just like his father"

And this was the guy who now had Molly’s friends--four fresh-faced young women who had barely tasted human life before it was taken away froed another look I’m not even sure what it meant, but he inclined his head a little, as if to say I’ decided," I announced "One way or another, we are tearing it all down"

Jesse glanced"This is what Lex said you would do She said you are clumsy and immature, but also as stubborn as she is" There was a ss before So I will help you take down Oskar And you will help me meet ht’s safe house of choice--Will’s house

I hadn’t had a whole lot of options for where to stash Katia, but the alpha olf’s place was isolated, it had a security systeuest rooht need a place to lay low I figured as long as no one but us and Will knew she was there, she would be safe for the night