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My heart leapt into my throat I screamed More screams echoed mine from inside the house

It took me a moment to remember Jacob could not be harmed by such a fall But his co The two hit the ground as one Their i the pave up immediately and to my surprise, so did the other man It was as if they'd not just fallen several stories onto stone

That's when I noticed Fincheven though his lish

Before I had a chance to guess at the language, my attention was drawn back to Jacob He and the other man hurled the their bodies as weapons Their chests slammed, shoulders hunched and heaved Fists smashed into flesh Flesh that wasn't like any flesh I knew-it didn't smack like real skin and no bones crunched No blood was spilled

The servant dove at Jacob, forcing hiht cast by a street lamp and that's when I saw his face

No, not facefaces It constantly changed, fornized and some I didn't- Finch, Blunt, Jacob, Adelaide, Lady and Lord Preston

It was the deht

Oh God, no How could Jacob defeat a de and that killing them was almost impossible and required a special Otherworldly blade I also knew that being a supernatural creature meant the demon could tear Jacob's soul from his body It could destroy his essence, obliterate him fro

I tried to get closer but Finch jerked e, poetic words blending together, sliding off his tongue He was directing the creature-the deainst hie s then looked over his other shoulder into thefootsteps echoed through the dense fog and I saw the flap of a coat before it ed up by the night

Finch grunted and bunched his fist into h to utter, "Soft-bellied toff" Did he mean me, or the person from the alley? Had soination?