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"Wait," the wo over my nerves Tiny hairs on my body rose I didn’t wait I started to turn the knob when the deck creaked under footsteps that weren’t mine

I didn’t even have a second

A hand cla it back from the door as another hand s my startled yelp of pain Immediately, a metallic taste flooded my ainst my teeth, but the scent of blood…it wasn’t fro me

My feet were lifted off the floor as he turned away from the door Real fear, such I’d never felt before, exploded like a buckshot, pinging around insideat the hand aroundrunted

The worasp , but I still kicked out, catching her in the chest withmy ankle, she stumbled back as she hissed She actually hissed Like a pissed-off cat, lips pulled back and teeth bared Terror punched through ers into the cold, cla to pry it away from my mouth as he neared the steps of the deck

"Gods," snapped the man, and my heart dropped Gods Oh crap "She’s just a stupid s You’re fucking helpless"

Horror swaers slipped over the plastic privacy wall, digging into the raised edge With all th, I held on as heout as he tugged harder with his arto snap my neck

"He’s inside," I heard the wo in a whine "I can sense hi with her? I can feel hiain "She set hi in there after hi off whatever the worip, I fell into e a scream as the deck steps rose up to round and the side of ht burst behind my eyes Stunned and jarred to hly flipped onto my back and yanked the rest of the way down I was sprawled in the daain

He was overI could do as he wrapped a hand under rass His nails scraped along ht the collar ofhi his head His cool lips brushed the same area Seth’s had only a few hours earlier Nausea twisted my insides as his mouth moved to the space between ?"

My heart juh my skin Had to be a knife, because it couldn’t be what I thought it was--it couldn’t be his teeth Red-hot pain blasted through me like a cannonball as I opened my mouth and screamed--really screamed

I was on fire Someone had dropped a asoline I was burning up--I had to be Sharp pinpoints of pain shot out fro deep insidethat came from my very core and burned a , but I didn’t understand her words They sounded like they were a different language

The thing jerked offover rass beside my head I blinked his face into focus Blood--my blood--smeared his lips Then my vision blurred back out, and…

"What…what are you?" he asked, voice slurred, sluggish

Icy fingers wrapped around ain, aboveI couldn’t make a sound

No more than a lyphs raced across my skin I exhaled as I snatched the briefs and jeans off the sink The feeling curling down nal, just like the appearance of the wards onthe briefs and then the jeans on, I threw open the door The room was empty, and as I took a step forward, I felt the wicked sixth sense kicking in The glyphs ot to be fucking kidding htstand The handle warmed to my touch

Her stuff was still where I’d placed it, near the front door The chain-lock was also set My gaze swung to the back door In less than a second, I was throwing it open and stepping out into the night, and into a nightround A female was at her wrist and a ing her, feeding from her in a way meant to cause pain And the male daimon, his body covered hers co

Rage like I’d never known before detonated like a nuclear bo a metallic, bitter taste in the back of my mouth The world tinted a beside the ferabbed a chunk of her hair and ripped her head back, seeing right through the glamour that hid them in the mortal world