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Daeers and nodded "Yeah Where’s Bilbo?"

"Blake," I corrected "He’s in the living room"

He shut the door behind him "About your hand…"

When Daemon had asked , because I seriously doubted he would think how it happened was kosher The last thing any of us needed was for him to kill Blake over ht" I shrugged, looking down at the tips of his black boots peeking out frohed "Lame?"

"Yeah, really lame, Kat Maybe you should stay away from the stove for a little while?"

He sidled pastI couldn’t leave hiave hiain"

Grinning, Daemon plopped down next to Blake and spread his ar the other boy "I know you’ve ht, I’ot started withstuff around for a little while and Daeratulations," but he watchedstuff is just a parlor trick, really" Blake’s arms were pinned to his chest

"Wow" Dae that out?"

Blake ignored hiood news is you can do it on command now, but that doesn’t mean you have control I hope it does, but we really don’t know"

Damn Blake was such a downer so to need to co, you can’t fire back with a thousand questions" He paused while Dae"

A it! That’s pretty aain, there was the fire hoopla "I’h" He exhaled loudly "Okay Stay here"

I glanced at Daemon as Blake disappeared into the foyer "I have no idea what he’s up to"

Dae I don’t like"

Like there was much Blake could do that Daeet was that Blake hadn’t put theme that day in the diner But maybe it was just plain old dislike

While aited, I heard drawers opening in the kitchen There was a clank of silverware Oh goodie, lassware to destroy

Blake returned and stopped in the doorway, one hand behind his back "You ready?"

"Sure"

He sht reflected off the sharp edge of ht at ht in my throat I threw up my hand, horrified and panicked The knife stopped intoward me It just stayed there, suspended

Blake clapped "I knew it!"

I stared at hi skills slowly trickled back in "What the hell, Blake?"

Several things happened all at once Now that my concentration was broken, the knife fell out of the air, s I let loose several curses that would’ve caused my mom to cry and Daemon, who’d appeared to have been knocked into a stupor by what Blake had done, snapped out of it

Dae into his true form A heartbeat later, he had Blake pinned halfway up the wall, swathed in an intense whitish-red light that lit up the entire living room

I craned my neck and whispered, "Holy sht "You need to check yourself Katy wasn’t in any danger"

There was no response from Daemon, not one that Blake could hear, anyway, but I did Loud and clear That’s it I’an to shake and walls trembled The flat-screen on the TV stand rattled All around, little puffs of plaster filled the air Dae Blake whole, and for a horrible ht he had killed Blake

"Dae around the coffee table "Stop!"

But then there was a crackling sound, like air heated and charged after a lightning strike Still in his Luxen foro The boy landed on his feet and staggered to the side as he rose

Daeot in thestop"

Blake ran both his hands down his shirt, straightening it "I’ knife atto say, because I heard Daemon promise, I will break hiers brushed alongonly half of a second and so quick that I doubted Blake even saw it Then his light flickered out He stood in his hue, his eyes white and sharp like icicles "What the hell were you thinking?"

"She wasn’t in any danger! If I thought for a second she couldn’t do it, I wouldn’t have thrown it at her!"

Daee hand curled into a fist Hue "But there was no way you would’ve known she could do it! Not a hundred percent!"

Turning wide, pleading eyes to er, Katy If I thought you couldn’t stop it, I wouldn’t have done it"

Dae him "Who does that?" Daemon demanded Heat rolled off his body