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He flashed his teeth—but not his fangs—at her “You don’t want to see what’s behind the shades, sweetheart” The last as a mockery of an endearment that

“Venoain, but the corners of his lips continued to tug up at the corners “You want me to drive?”

“No, we’ll take the Ferrari Take another car so I can leave you there”

“I iveaware of it”

“Go”

Stepping out into the artificial light of an underground garage had never felt so good—she was fairly certain that without Ds in more ways than one “Now I know you’re important,” she said when the currently open-topped Ferrari proved to be parked in the spot nearest the elevator

“If it took you this long, Honor, you’re dimmer than you look”

As a taunt, it was only , especially when it was clear D onto the butter-soft leather of the passenger seat, she looked over to where Venolasses?”

“You haven’t heard? He’s been in the city long enough to have come into contact with a number of hunters”

“I didn’t work in the country muchbefore” She took her first real breath in what felt like an hour as Dmitri drove them out of the secure Tower zone and into thehorns, yelled-out insults, and a thousand cell phone conversations taking place at once “Had no reason to interact with Tower personnel when I was in the city”

“In that case”—an amused tone—“I’ll leave it to Venom to surprise you”

The city picked up in voluot from the Tower New York had overwhelmed her when she’d first arrived—fresh off a bus from North Dakota This wasn’t home—no place was home, really—but at least the Guild was here Ashwini and Sara lived here So did Demarco, Ransom, and Vivek Friends who had searched for her with relentless persistence, ould die for her if it caave her an anchor when everything else was spiraling out of control “Where did they find the body?”

“In Times Square”