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Chapter One

It wasn’t his finest day, Salvatore Giuliani, theof Weres, had to adht shitty

It was bad enough to regain consciousness to discover he was stretched out in a dark, nasty tunnel that was currently ruining his Gucci suit, and that he had no clear otten there

But to open his eyes and use the perfect night vision of his olf heritage to discover a three-foot gargoyle with stunted horns, ugly gray features, and delicate wings in shades of blue and gold and crih to ruin a perfectly horrible mood

"Wake up," Levet hissed, his French accent pronounced and his wings fluttering in fear "Wake up, you ain and be assured you’ll soon be chopped into bits of gravel and pavingin time to his heartbeat

What the hell had happened?

The last thing he remembered, he’d been in a remote cabin north of St Louis tohis traitor of a pack leader, and the next he aking up with Levet buzzing over hihty When Salvatore got out of the tunnel, he was going to track down Jagr and cut out his heart for sticking hi Levet Daet up and s"

Ignoring the grinding pain in his joints, Salvatore rose to his feet and sth raven hair He didn’t bother knocking the dirt fro with gargoyle

"Where are we?"

"In some nasty tunnel"

"A brilliant deduction What would I do without you?"

"Look, Cujo, all I know is that one minute ere in a cabin with an extre dropped on rave;s ill-oyle rubbed his butt rather than his head Of course, his skull was far too thick to harm "That female is fortunate that I did not turn her into a beaver"

"It had to have been a spell Was the woman a witch?"

"Non A deed It was co the demon world to interbreed

"Not unusual"

"Her power is"

Salvatore frowned He oyle, but the tiny deic that Salvatore couldn’t

"What power?"

"Jinn"

A chill inched down Salvatore’s spine and he cast a swift glance up and down the tunnel In the distance he could sense the approach of his curs and a va to the rescue His attention, however, was focused on searching for any hint of the jinn

A pureblooded jinn was a cruel, unpredictable creature who could , turn wind into a lethal force, and lay flat an entire city with an earthquake They could also disappear into a wisp of smoke Thankfully, they rarely took an interest in the world and preferred to reht not possess the power of a full-fledged jinn, but their inability to control their volatile energy erous

"Jinn have been forbidden to breed with other des forbidden in this world"

"The Co to the cryptic Oracles ere the ultimate leaders of the de up eone"

"Fine" Levet threw his hands in the air "We will send a oyle Help is on the way"

With a frown, Levet sniffed the air "Your curs"

"And a leech"

Levet sniffed again "Tane"

Expecting Jagr, Salvatore’s brows snapped together One va first and asking questions later didn’t exactly warm the cockles of a Were’s heart