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Dad? Maybe she’s delirious “Say what?”

“My father’s the sea god Hehis kids drown”

Mick blinked at her “The sea god Like the sea god? Like od?”

“That’d be the one”

“He…they exist?”

She arched a brow at him as she rolled to her knees and tried to stand “You turn into a wolf and you’re asking ods exist?”

He put a hand under her elbow to steady her “Well it’s not like they’re one of the co on the Council So that ht word

“A deoddess, technically Which sounds a lot cooler than it actually is” She lifted the heed firmly behind her belt “C’mon We need to find the car”

Chapter 5

The cemetery was a half hour’s walk from the pond they’d surfaced in on somebody’s Garden District estate Given their need for haste, Mick had shifted A big ass dog stuck out a lot less than a bare-assed man, no matter how attractive that ass happened to be And that was all anyone would see if they looked out at the eh sense to get out of the rain

Sophie wanted to run The need to get back to the car, toat her But after their ordeal in the catacoe it She’d pushed herself too far The way her head pounded and her vision blurred, she was doing well enough to put one foot in front of the other without stu Mick helped with that He was so tall as a wolf, she could easily lean on his shoulders to steady herself She felt soers threaded through his ruff He was solid

As they neared the back edge of the ce stiff Sophie stopped, creeping forward as he did, following the unspoken order for silence On the other side of the fence, the foliage rustled, and she dove for the cover of soround

“Anything?” The male voice carried faintly over the rain

“Nah If anybody else was standing watch, they bailed when the cataco up any signs of life down there Whoever they were, they drowned”

Sophie chanced a peek through the branches She couldn’t seeblur, a deeper black within the shadows of a nearby toh to identify them Shadow Walkers The Council’s special ops division We ht