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Eli gave me a wicked smile, and it s "Yeah, Riley I got it" He glanced at Josie "You stay here with her, squirt," he said "Watch her back"

"Yes!" Josie said excitedly "I brought so the backpack she carried "I’ve got the a fifteen-year-old vaot about an hour before the shop opens" I inclinedup her laptop, and I found Eli’s gaze; he gave an approving nod

"We’ll be back in a few," he said In less than a blink, the Dupré brothers had disappeared down the stairs An accoines echoed in the alley behind Inksolanced at Josie

"Boys and their toys," she said very h

"Ain’t that the truth," I said For a split second I paused and thought about the Duprés Even though I’d seen the horror Eli could transfor Phin, Luc, and Josie doing the sa Especially Josie It all see at once, and I wasn’t positive my brain would ever fully coasped a muffled scream, and stumbled back Josie stood no more than two feet away, her sweet, youthful face contorted into the saed-teeth terror that I’d seen on Eli and Gilles Her white eyes stared curiously at my reaction, and once she’d seen it, her face immediately re-formed back to the sweet teen Josie I knew

"There," she said ant, and with a wicked little smile "Now you don’t have to wonder anymore" She inclined her head to the open laptop on the counter "Wanna see my pics?" she said, as if she’d not just completely transformed in front of me

"Whoa," Iheart to slow its pace "Okay Let’s see" I scrolled through the file and inspected Josie’s art--a from Pictish symbols to lizards and spiders to faces reflected in the infalassedof Notre Dame They literally blew my mind

"Wow--this is your brother?" Josie said frolanced up and noticed that she was looking at the picture I’d taken of Seth frohthouse in June "Yep, that’s Seth," I answered, and just hearing his name out loud made my heart heavy

"God, he’s so cute," Josie muttered, and continued to stare at it

I couldn’t help but grin "These are seriously fantastic," I told her, scrolling through s "Despite the fact that you’re over a hundred and fifty years old, you’re too young for me to hire," I said, "but I’d love to commission some of your art They’d make kick-ass tats"

"Seriously?" Josie said excitedly "That’d be freaking awesome!"

"Good Okay it with your ht how funny it was that her ot to get ready Help yourself towhatever," I told her, and headed to ht back

"Okay," Josie answered