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Sophia let out a low, threatening growl With her ruined, raspy voice, she sounded like a ical Fenrir wolf about to sink its teeth into a hunk of fresh iant dropped his hands to his sides and stepped away from her Smart man

Kincaid stayed silent throughout their exchange, thenmotion with his hand "This way "

He led us over to the far side of the deck, the one facing out toward the Aneirin River A large cooking station had been set up there, complete with pots, pans, utensils, a couple of burners, coolers filled with ice, and everything else ould need Kincaid had been thorough, if nothing else His acco nature only made me that much more suspicious about what he really wanted - and how ht

"I thought ould set you up out here so you can see all of the action," he said "Keep you right in the thick of things "

His voice was as bland as could be, but so in his words bothered ht, but I couldn't iirls could possibly create that his giants couldn't handle

"Like I said, let Antonio know if you need anything "

Kincaid gave me a thin smile, then moved off into the crowd Antonio nodded at us and walked away too, although he didn't go far, planting hi station Keeping an eye on us

"This gets stranger by the minute," I said to Sophia

The dwarf grunted her agree them I did the sa to do now but see it through to the end

The next hour involved reheating the dishes Sophia and I hadso up to the hungry kids

I recognized more than a few folks and said hello to those I knew, since I was also a student at Ashland Co a course or two at the college, like the literature class I'd signed up for this su the first wave of students when I spotted two very familiar faces in the crowd - Eva Grayson and Violet Fox

Eva en's nineteen-year-old sister, and Violet was her best friend The two girls were pretty much inseparable, despite how different they were Eva looked a lot like Oith her blue-black hair, while Violet was all frizzy blond hair and glasses Like everyone else, they were dressed in shorts, T-shirts, and flip-flops In fact, Eva's T-shirt bore the na

I wasn't particularly surprised to see the was that the two girls were talking to none other than Kincaid hi both Eva and Violet to laugh Eva, especially, see her hair over her shoulder and s brother would definitely not approve of

Owen had a protective streak a mile hen it caer sister Bria Oould definitely not want Eva cozying up to a casino- and Kincaid see every second of her attention

I dished up the last of the macaroni salad in s for a while? I see so I need to take care of "