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"I’m a very important oracle, a leader of the Vertas aroddess Just have one teeny-weeny task to co you for sos I know"

"You’ve spied on me?"

"Did you ever see that movie Broken Arrow? Naturally you have--it’s a cinema classic Anyhoodles, I would never let ht Except for when I would"

She was a nut-job "Why would Thad be with you? Does he knohat you are?"

"He does And I knohat he is"

Jo’s mouth went dry "What do you think he is?" Is Thad like ood" Charity work, corinned "If you say so"

"What does that mean?"

"I have plans for Thaddeus this Accession We all have parts to play"

Plans? Plans? The Valkyrie was freaking dead "No one makes plans for hi to take me to him Now"

"Not possible"

Jo stared down the smaller female "You say you know me? Uh-uh Otherwise you’d know I’m about to break all your bones, one by one, until you tell me where he is"

N&iuhtning flashed nearby "What a fascinating idea"

What the hells? Froe atop a stack of rail containers, Rune listened in disbelief

Horong he’d been Josephine hadn’t been protecting N&iu the male The vaue with N&iuht be in love with Thad What kind of ridiculous naht back The male had been tall Females would find him attractive More than attractive

If Josephine was in love with another, then everything she’d done in Rune’s bed had been a ploy to get back to this other s She had offered to let hi if she lost her bet, because she’d been desperate to return to another Froer if she gave her heart into so to lose that wager

That little bitch! For the first tiled hi Yet tonight he had beenused

I like you soher face Bullshit!

She and the Valkyrie began circling each other "Are you sure you want to challenge one likecreature Just a quarter of a century old"

Quarterwhatthefuck??? Josephine was only twenty-five?

He’d taken her to bed He’d devoured her and given her a font of forbidden blood Talk about taboos! Gods, I sicken myself