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"Yes, I'm afraid it does" She held out her hand, then eased back the halanced fro

With a shake of his head, Loken took another step backward "If you want it, coain by stalling? A few more minutes of life? You fool! I can take it off your body if I have to"

"All right, all right" Conceding defeat, Loken reached into his coat pocket

"Slowly!" Myra ad with hatred, Loken's hand delved into his pocket

And then, in a blur of motion almost too quick to follow, he raised both hands One held the vial, the other held the knife he had used on Brenna A single drop of blood glistened on the tip of the blade

With a shout, he flung the knife at Myra Myra let out a shriek She reeled back as the blade buried itself to the hilt in her chest Her arer

Brenna screah her side

Myra hit the wall She stared at the knife protruding from her heart, her eyes ith disbelief, and then, as her strength began to wane, she slid slowly to the floor, the pistol still dangling fro for breath "Give it… to… "

Her body went slack, her head lolling forward

"You were right, Myra," Loken said "The coven isn't big enough for both of us" He laughed as he held the vial up to the light "I'm invincible now!" he crowed "I'll be theout a deep breath, Loken put the vial on the table beside the bed

All he had to do noas coax the location of the vairl, and then he would dispose of her body and Myra 's He'd have to coood story to tell the witches at the coven, he thought, staring at the vial, so to explain Myra 's abrupt absence frolanced at Brenna She see Too bad she had to die With a gri pretty about death, he ot her out of his bedrooh the house, not without getting blood on the carpets He thought a e He had so there He'd roll her into the plastic and put her in the basement while he searched his spell book for an invocation that would make a body disappear without a trace Where Myra was concerned, he didn't want any evidence of her death, not even ashes

Brenna opened her eyes a crack when she heard the door close Loken was gone, but for how long? She glanced at the dead witch Myra lay sprawled against the wall like a pile of dirty laundry Brenna shivered How long would Loken leave Myra 's body lying there? The witch's evil lingered in the rooined Myra 's spirit hovering over her in a vain effort to steal the last of her life's breath, her ghostly fingers clawing at her ars as Myra tried to veil her spirit in flesh oncethe sun to set, the night to co weaker with each breath And then she looked at her ar She could feel unshot wound in her side Roshan had been right The effects were only temporary

Please She sent a silent prayer toward heaven Please lethis voice, seeing his face? Please, one last kiss to warh eternity