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Dark holes where eyes should’ve been hastly pale skin Her ed teeth covered in blood-- Josie’s blood

I sla off the damn wail daimons were known for before she could let it loose They were highly allergic to anything titaniule slice-and-dice froer, her face crumbled into itself and then she imploded in a shower of shimmery dust

The male daimon reared to his feet and stumbled back a step Josie didn’t move Her neck was covered in blood and her sweater was torn, revealing more than that bastard ever should’ve seen

"She tastes like a god" He staggered, tripping over her still leg His lips curved into a gruesoh "Bliss…"

"You’re so fucking dead," I growled

He dipped his chin and opened hisout an eerie howl that was a cross between a bobcat getting run over and a screaed me All hocked up on the hidden aether that ht train I dipped under his extended ar up behind him The need to make the bastard hurt, to ht Sentinels not to play with their prey The dai neck Then his ar rusty and dull to cut his balls off Then I would kill higer aside as it barreled toward h unshot or crack of thunder For a second, a tinye, in the art of fucking payback, and the girl on the ground--the girl who needed me With no time to spare, I snapped out of the haze of violence

I launched forward,him around the neck with a hand, I held him off as my eyes locked with the soulless, black depths "You are so very lucky"

Then I shoved the dagger deep into its chest, yanking the blade out I spun around before the bastard iround beside Josie, I placed the dagger within reach I brushed her hair back from her cheek Her face was too pale The skin above her te on out here?"

I looked over my shoulder An older man in slippers and a dark robe stood a few feet away, his watery eyes ods knehat I didn’t have tiritted out, packing a powerful compulsion "Just a dream Go inside Go back to sleep"

The man didn’t blink He was frozen for a second, and then he wheeled around and walked stiffly across the grass

Heart pounding, I turnedood look at her neck The tag wasn’t deep and blood had already stopped oozing out of the crescent-shaped biteso I could slide an ar position Her head lolled back and I quickly adjusted her, cradling her againstmother fucker"