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I glared at hiainst , but you’re all alone Boo hoo Maybe you should buy a goldfish to keep you coround--a loose brick I hadn’t noticed before--and slowly crept up behind Stephen My breath caught as she swung it forward to bash him in the head, but he turned just in tirabbed her throat and slaainst the wall directly beside me
Too close I couldn’t be this close to soht now Froer crashed over me and I literally whimpered
Stephen’s expression shifted to one of victory
"See, Sahty and above these earthly needs, like so around with Heaven and Hell’s best But at your core, you’re exactly likebetter then"
"What?" Jordan choked "Samantha’s not"
Stephen smiled "Yes, she is I ing ive her She’s wanted ht, Sahed at this and the sound sent a shiver racing down my spine "I took her soul because her demon aunt asked me to I actually felt bad about it at the tirip increased on my throat Jordan’s, too, since she let out a hoarse screarip on either of us "You want to knowto leave you two alone for a while It won’t be very er before you can’t hold back, Samantha You’ll take Jordan’s soul, and you’ll take it all"
"What?" My throat closed with horror at the suggestion
His cheeks tightened "If I did it myself, I’d kill her And I want her to live I want her to beimproved There’s room for both of you atboth of us to the side and went to the door "I’ll check on you later"
He left
I scrambled to the far corner of the rooh away fro for a moment, but when she pulled her hands away froht nohat the hell is going on here!" she deave her a bleak look "What part don’t you understand?"
"All of it!"
I studied her for a er in her eyes "I think you understand more than you realize"
"What does this have to do with Julie’s suicide?"
"Honestly?" I thought about it "Nothing, directly But in a way, everything bizarre that’s going on in this city is related"
If Connor had been right in his hypothesis about the new de on in Trinity was related to the Hollow and how it had beco door, rather than Heaven and Hell’s du what it had once sed down