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"No smell Not even a hint" A seductive sori attacks Malachi followed the other scribe as he rushed back toward the street "Is she alive?"

"Barely"

As they approached the street lights, Malachi got a better look at the victim She appeared to be no more than sixteen or seventeen Her skin was pale and her breathing shallow The young woloved thumb brush her cheek

"A child" The raw fury bubbled under the surface of the quiet irl, Malachi"

"They don’t care"

Grigori soldiers seducedtheir otherworldly charive thely, joyfully, never aware of the ic that drew them And when the ottenlives

Dead Unconscious Drained of their y, ori The rare one who did was often inated by the monster If the survivor was lucky, she would live to bear a very gifted child, one who bore an echo of his or her otherworldly parentage It was a cruel twist that had resulted in soori blood was laced through the huh a colorful tapestry

"Call Maxiht"

Malachi pulled out his phone as Rhys walked back toward the Range Rover they’d parked under the brightest light on the , not even the nosiest Turk would ask what the two i with the woman they carried Malachi opened the back door and Rhys slid the unconscious girl inside

They couldn’t take her to a hospital The human doctors would have no idea how to help her, and her faht be contacted There wasn’t en If the young woman survived, she wouldn’t even realize she’d been attacked Most Grigori survivors went searching for their attackers, convinced they had experienced an act of the purest love iing with no answer Eventually, Maxiirl here," he said softly "Grigori attack She’s alive Young Call us We need to take her to your friend’s clinic"

Only a few humans in Istanbul knew of the existence of the scribes Maxim’s doctor friend was one He was discreet, and he and his wife did their best to help any girls who survived Grigori attacks As they crept slowly through the neighborhood, Malachi rolled his n The suht was cooler, and a breeze blew off the water Turning a corner, he caught a whiff of the telltale incense