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Suddenly he crashed into so angel

Instantly on the alert, he drew back, reaching for the gun in his shoulder holster "Stop," caent whisper "Please"

He was startled by her near hysteria, but even so, he recognized the voice It was Sue Preston, a shapeshifter friend of Jennie Mahoney’s

He caught her hand as he hunkered down by her "What is it? What’s going on?" he asked

"They’re fighting--and it’s terrible," Sue said She was a pretty young thing, but right now she had giant tears in her eyes "I saw Georgio Tre dinner, and then Ossie Blane We started talking, decided to kill so, and the next thing I knew, they were tearing into each other"

Georgio Tremont was a vampire

Ossie Blane was a olf

This could be trouble

"Stay here," he told Sue quietly

He rose and slipped around the side of the small family vault where he’d found Sue Another thud Soht beside him

He didn’t let who--or whatever it was--rise He shot out an ar the scruff of a furry neck

It was Ossie Blane He’d changed, and was in rare, snarling form

Werewolves were very powerful Their teeth were er kneould have one chance before winding up in a literal fight for his life

He kept his grip hard and shook Ossie with all his strength "Ossie! It’s Jagger, Jagger DeFarge Stop this now!"

Ossie was, at heart, a decent guy, and to Jagger’s relief, that guy hadn’t sunk too far beneath the surface Ossie went still Slowly the snout becas retracted

The sleek shape of the wolf elongated and straightened into an erect position

Gasping for breath, Ossie stared at hi toward the the full brunt of his body as a bulwark The vaer had to take a step back to absorb the blow

Bend and you’ll never break

He didn’t think hisvampires when he’d said it, but it had turned out to be true nonetheless

Georgio dropped to the ground after slaer was rehed at a ht into a newly cleaned and coio started to er helped hie, what are you doing here?" Georgio asked

"That walking furball attackedforward belligerently "I said that it was obvious that the killer’s a vae students"

Jagger interposed himself between theht now, and we have to keep cal we need, if you’ll pardon the pun, is soer’s aers at each other at the same time and said in unison, "He started it!"

Most of the ti conversationalists over a meal or a drink Ossie loved aniio was a er said quietly "Look at what you’re doing Myths and ed froel-topped mausoleuht you were ht have been a coain

"I’ his arht, tiether Daether or the whole city’s going to turn on us We need to find a killer--and I don’t give a damn what race he is To do that, I need help, not a couple of hotheads trying to rip each other to shreds"