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"If you’re looking at the stove, then I think so," I said

"Okay…" Shayla breathed

A ic to cause the sound of an explosion Then,the fire beneath one of the pots, sheIt spread rapidly throughout the room

The fire alarm went off

A fewin with a fire extinguisher As soon as he neared the fla that would impair any surveillance cameras’ lenses

The rest of the task was fairly simple Shayla silenced the hunter with a spell, and then vanished hi him reappear outside beside us, invisible

She transported the three of us quickly to The Shade, and as we arrived back on the jetty, she reripped the hunter by the neck and forced hih the conscience that Sofia had instilled inof what I was about to do, in that moment, it was the old Derek Novak that took over The Derek Novak that was numb to loss of life The Derek Novak that struck fear in every hunter’s heart

Chapter 31: Ben

In between the pangs of unbearable hunger ripping at ain:

I can’t turn back into a hurimaced at the bitter irony of it all I’d wanted so badly for the cure to work so that I would stop craving humans Now that I had taken the cure, I just found myself landed with ten times the desire to kill

I could hardly look at River I didn’t want to see the disappoint so hard that this would work, that I would no longer need to rely on s her twenty-four hours a day I hated to chain her toher eyes was painful I felt ashah she’d stood by me, she knehat happened when she left my side She had witnessed uesthouse She knew that I would do the saot the chance

A hushed silence filled the roooing to get human blood from I didn’t want to think about it I just needed the blood And I needed it now

Even River’s presence was beginning to lose its effect onEach moer inMore delicious