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"That was quite a speech Bottoood, long look "Decent, though skinny jeans would have been better"

"I hate skinny jeans" Because I couldn’t get thele "Besides, et this over with Did you go see Ian?" I headed to the kitchen for a bottle of synthetic

"Yes, he’s testing ht if we’re a hed and nodded towardto offer me one of those?"

"Not hardly" I showed her the label

She wrinkled her nose "Gah I only drink pre Any powers go along with the blood?"

"Don’t know Wouldn’t tell you if I did"

"Talking to Ray really got a bug up your butt, didn’t it?" Lucky sniffed

I just sipped my drink and decided to test one of my so-called powers I reached out with hts were blocked I tried to punch through that block and bam! I made it I saw her startled look as I read that she was bored in Austin and needed to get back to New York Ian had ravated and confused Siren ic or Lucky as usual?

"What the hell did you just do?" She aih your rinned and set my bottle on the coffee table "Ta da! Siren power"

"I don’t believe you What was I thinking?" She grabbed her tablet out of her purse and turned it on

"For one thing, when Ianor if he was really attracted to you It pissed you off" I crosseddeal

"I’ll be damned" Lucky tapped in notes

"Maybe it’s from my Siren blood Or it could be a holdover from when I had a demon inside one, Lucky"

She crossed herself "A deet down to business, Lucky" I stood and loo her "Yes, you probably have Siren blood and I don’t give a damn if you do Because I swore to Ray that I would not, under any circumstances, help you And I will definitely not take money from you Capite?"

"What did you just say to me?" Lucky jumped to her feet

"The deal is off" I pulled her check out of et it I won’t mentor you Not for any amount of money Ray’s friendship means too much to me"

"We have a contract" Her face turned red and she fisted her hands Was she actually going to get violent about this? I zipped across the roohts No, she wasn’t, but her "boys" were about to

"You knohat you can do with your contract and it won’t do you any good to call in the troops I have a weapon now that will ainst the wall next to the kitchen

"Oh, yeah? I’d like to see that" Lucky stalked over to jerk open the door "Get in here We’ve got a deadbeat Show her hoe deal with those"

"You got it, boss" Bodyguard number one, who could have been a poster boy for steroid use and a bench press championship, ambled toward me I had him frozen in place before he’d taken two steps

"What the--" Lucky glanced at her second guy "Get her"