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Sweet Ruin Kresley Cole 15230K 2023-09-01

"I didn’t need an army to take you down I only needed to distract you--while I collected your mate My spies told me you’d found yours, but I scarcely believed an aboot a fated female"

Rune’s hand dipped to his quiver He’d wanted a fair fight; Saetthan had targeted his wohts of one-and-done He’d string it auards would dive and take the Saetthan to contend with Rune’s most precisely lethal arrow

"Ah-ah, Rune," Saetthan chided, all confidence "If you aiave a laugh "If you believe that, then your spies didn’t tell you quite enough about her"

Saetthan shuttered a look of puzzleht, to pay for taking hts, Rune said, "Josie?"

"I got this Do what you gotta do" She began to deh the floor, she forced the intangible male down as well She made it slow, eerie

"What trickery is this?" Saetthan demanded "Your aped, Rune nocked his arrows, unleashing the with uncanny speed, Saetthan swung his sword up to deflect the one-and-done

The arrowhead connected with the blade

Light erupted A boom like a thunderclap

The swordexploded !

Charred metal bit into Saetthan’s skin Shards hissed and cooled as they plulass doods Rune had destroyed the sword--the uniting symbol of that entire accursed family He quickly fired another volley into the smoke

By the time the air cleared, Saetthan had disappeared

Rune turned to Josephine She’d dragged the swordsman to his waist, and he’d co her The hunter was terrified, his short yells chilling

The two sank below the glass floor, visible for a fewthe attendees still present on the outskirts of the ballroom

Josephine surfaced Alone

Her secret was out She azed around at the appalled spectators "Anybody else want to go to their grave tonight? I’ll bury you so deep, they’ll never find your body down there You et used to having her around

She turned to him with a sunny smile "Best Date Ever"

His lips curled And it was in no way finished

Rune ht have missed his opportunity to kill Saetthan, but that sword had been annihilated Josephine was unharht occurred, another crack sounded fro