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Poking at an angry , Levet"

They’d left thedown the narrow path when Levet returned to his previous question "You ith a dragon?"

"We were" She griue warnings "He revealed this spirit that we’re tracking ray eyes widened in shock "Truly?"

"Yes"

"That sounds" Levet shuddered in horror "Sacrebleu, I do not even have the words"

Nefri gave a slow nod "My thoughts exactly"

Even driving like a bat out of hell (a rather appropriate o was forced to accept that they weren’t going to reach Gaius

They could have ditched the truck and y would have od of vao was i to colance over the head of the ridiculous gargoyle as perched between therimaced "Close, but too far to pinpoint before dawn"

She nodded "We should find a place to rest for the day"

"Oui" Levet abruptly see caves is o shuddered Twelve hours stuck in a daoyle? No way in hell

Which was exactly why he’d chosen this particular route Thank the gods

"Actually Viper has a club not far from here"

Nefri blinked, as if surprised by his claied "Soether, no doubt expecting the usual offering of blood, sex, and violence "And this one?"

"The Suant establishy to be found"

He expected a responding saze

"Does it bother you?"

"Orgies?" He gave a teasing waggle of his brows Not that he’d ever been into public displays And nowhe couldn’t i intimate with any female but Nefri in public or private "Not at all"

She refused to be distracted "The fighting"

He knehat she htly basis, no one had been e a club renowned for its cagetime in the club, he finally realized it was exactly what he needed

"Just the opposite," he ad the truck to take the off-ralance around the cornfields before returning her attention to him "I don’t understand"

"I’m in control now," he explained "That es, and those who try to force a fighter into the matches answer to me I can also make sure that the opponents are evenly e can be done" He took another turn onto a gravel road "There’s also a strict policy against masos"

"Masos?" she asked

It was Levet who answered with a wrinkle of his snout "A deets off on pain,hurt?"

He offered a wicked se"

She stiffened in distaste "Char"

"To each his own," he o slowed to a h alert For most people this deserted path several miles south of Iowa City would have seemed like a road to nowhere, but he ell aware that there lurked a number of nasty surprises for those who dared to trespass

The Summerset Club was one of Viper’s uarded with better surveillance than Area 51