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No wonder he'd appeared bewildered by his breaths He'd pounded his fist over his chest, over his heart

Because she'd made it beat

Had the Order known this would happen? That she'd be his Bride and his mate? How could they have? It seemed impossible So why did she feel double-crossed?

"Alton, ara," he coht he was co his female to come - or to heel?

"Not until you cal that she would jued to one side to punch a boulder in frustration It cracked wide like an egg

His strength He could break her bones with a touch

She'd heard tales of va their females They were unstoppable And she knew that the de drive so strong it made the that drive, they couldn't resist it

He was definitely in the ht now

Would she juh his postcoital high h power to escape him, the demon would tear her with his size Would she even be conscious to draw the power fro froave way under her foot

New Orleans, Louisiana

Val Hall, the Valkyrie stronghold

"Nix, I'et the info you pro around the roo, better known as Nucking Futs Nix, cried, "Let's start fro soon, you know" She twirled in circles, her long black braids flying out, reseh on runway power, rather than a three-thousand-year-old Valkyrie oracle Her baby-doll T-shirt said Carpe Nocteathered with thes intently - they had a stake in Mariketa's "uest to find Carroell At least one of their own had been abducted mere miles away from where Carrow had been taken

So many stolen Myriad creatures fro other witches, one as young as seven They were rumored to have been captured by the henchmen of an unknown entity, and none of them could be found The House of Witches, the fey trackers, the powerful Sorceri, none of the for patience, Mari said, "You have to have seen so"

Nix frowned over her shoulder "Have to have I?" Spinning, spinning

"Nix, stop it!"

The soothsayer slowed to a standstill, casting Mari a hurt look Then she flounced to an easy chair

Extracting info from the soothsayer proved difficult at times At all times And Mari had heard that Nix hadn't even been lucid for the last teeks But Mari had to try - she was beside herself orry about her best friend

To search for Carrow, Mari had used all the power she could draithout risking a mystical backlash Then she'd called on all thirty-seven covens of the Wiccae to scry Even with so , no one could find a trace of Carrow All they could say was that she was in grave danger

Thanks for the tip, bitches

So Mari had gone to the most powerful and faot a call that you had inforazed up "Then tellthat no one else knows"

Tests? Mari felt her heart sinking Nix loved to play people In a solden eyes flashed playfully "You are indeedh hoops like everyone else?"

"Not hoops - scent"