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"Outside"

"Shit"

Standing, Salvatore crossed the rooo and stay with him," he commanded "Styx should be here within the hour"

Her mouth dropped open with disbelief Did he really think she was going to be treated like so rowled "Not now"

She stubbornly held her ground "You’re not facing that lunatic by yourself"

"I’ll be fine as long as I know you’re safe Do this for htened, his eyes dark with concern "Please"

"Salvatore…"

Putting an end to the argument, Salvatore wrapped an arm around her waist and tossed her over his shoulder Then striding across the floor, he yanked open the door and set her down in the hallway

"Go"

"Dammit" The door was shut in her face, followed by the distinct sound of the bolt being thrown

She stood for adown the door and teaching the daainst accepting that she asting tis on his own, regardless of the fact that he wasn’t firing on all cylinders

So freaking, typicallyon her heel, Harley headed down the stairs and back across the wide lobby It was late, but she could still hear the htclub below Obviously blood and sex were a big draw in the ol’ de back down to the pit when a female form detached froh the air

Tonya, the royal imp

Or aze ski over the red microdress that had been lacquered on the lush body, and the heavy layer of makeup on the pale, perfect face

"You shouldn’t be wandering around on your oeet thing," the i around who don’tto react to the insult or correct the assulare

"I need Santiago"

"The King of Weres isn’t enough for you?"

Harley stepped until they were nose to nose "Don’t Screw With Me Where is he?"

The woman sed, her eyes suddenly wide "His office"

"You see, that wasn’t so hard"

With a pat on the imp’s cheek, Harley headed for the back of the lobby, not ry wo the office, Harley shoved open the door and stepped over the threshold, indifferent to the dangers of intruding on a vampire without invitation

"I need your help"

Seated behind his desk, Santiago gave a lift of his brows before slowly rising to his feet

"Of course I a outside to s?"

"A psychotic zo a nasty temper" Her voice was clipped with i on the Were throne"

With fluid, al toward a far wall, pressing his fingers to the fras With a s a hidden tunnel

"Wait here," the vaoing?" Harley threw her hands in the air as the de her to twiddle her dalared at the opening, but she wasn’t stupid enough to follow Entering the private lair of a vampire was a death sentence Pure and si the da spell that made it impossible for her to sense whether Salvatore had already left the building

How had Briggs h the enchanto?