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Then, his beautiful suht toward me "Eli! Goddamn it!" I try to run, but I can’t even lift rab ure flies past me and slams into the alternative Eli Both hit the wall, and when one rises, he flies toward me so fast, I don’t have tirabs ee race,Finally, we stumble into another cha sound It’s so potent inin my ears is so loud, I can barely hear Noah’s words as he explains "Riley?" Jake is shakinginto irl?" Jake yells at er’s voice in a distant chaht next to ht and points it at his face "Are you okay?"
The ringing is overwhel Blindly I don’t even knohere I’ toward the exit of the cataco behindisn’t quite as loud now I must be near the street side I see a door I o
I stop inwater sound The other WUP h some miniscule cracks, and it’s almost a whine or a moan Not a voice
This way Please
My body turns toward the voice, and I arc ht left, and it falls on a s me that way More than the voice A fa that pops into e, and it e threadlike hallway of stone Ionly a s into holes or tripping over loose stones Far ahead, a light flickers
You’re alht be hiht I have to find hiht, and all at once it extinguishes A force--not a hand, but a force--knocks the flashlight frocrowded envelopes me Warmth Sensual arousal penetrates , and my body involuntarilyelse, save you," a seductively raspy voice says "I had to see you again"
I blink in the darkness "I can’t see you now Who are you? And whatare you doing to me?"
"I’m not who you think I am," he answers His voice is oddly ancient, with a medieval accent, sort of like Darius’s Yet different "I have no intentions of harh "Trustbutto har my eyes to remain open, even in the pitch-darkness "Who the hell are you?" I’m not physically restrained YetI can’t seeht now I justhad to see you," his words brushI can’t help it I lean into it Into hiwill happen to you"
"Riley!"
An arc of light sweeps the cold, dank room, and immediately my body is released from the shackles even I can’t detect I shake h for Noah to reach ry
"What the hell are you doing?" he says, and looks o?"
"Well, apparently I went here," I answer "I thought I heard so"
"So your best course of action is to find that so the rest of us?" he answers "Cohts, so I aer a shadow to you In three days, at the Marimae House, in Nen Seven pm Dress formal I’ll find you And come alone I don’t wish to share you with another soul
Quietly, I push the seductive voice out ofNoah, who has confiscated so in ain, and its pain rips into the side ofNoah We wind through the passageways of the catacoer is pointing her light toward hi cross Part of it is broken off He looks up at et out of here"
That’s when I notice the shadows