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"Don’t worry about Caitlin She’s a handful, but Fiona will take care of her," Jagger assured hi," Ryder answered Everything except her sister I can’t even handle her sister

The tight feeling in his stomach intensified He stared out over the crowds before theht as well be Halloween," he said aloud A human would not have been able to hear him in the raucous crowd, but a vampire could literally hear a pin drop, even with a din like this

A , Ryder knew the vauarantee the entities would wait until the next evening to descend on the street

Ryder tried to focus on the plan They were headed toward Bons Temps Much as Ryder hated to admit it, the only solid connection they had to the lead walk-in was Caitlin’s druggie psychic shapeshifter friend, Danny He hadn’t wanted to tell Caitlin, but it was clear that their best bet to trap and bind the lead entity, to perforht of the séance, was to convince the young psychic to do another sitting

Caitlin ht that, shifter to shifter, he ht just be able to make it happen Especially if he ht made his blood rise

He knew she was furious with hi her But he would risk her wrath to keep her safe He would be damned if he would lose someone else…

Someone else I love…to the walk-ins

Love Yes, he really had thought that Really did feel it

He would do whatever he had to do to protect Caitlin MacDonald And her sisters, too

Inside--a warehouse?--orse than outside Heavy doors clanged shut, and there was a sudden, crashing silence, broken only by the inhu of her captors, who held her with a mass of ar nerves to still and forced herself to take notice of her surroundings Caitlin could sered pervasively in al in the Quarter There was a wetness to the air, as well

She could hear only faintly through the thick wool cloak that encompassed her, but the sounds seeh-ceilinged room They didn’t seem to shift direction to avoid any furniture as the cluster of zoed as they were, frozen into the sheer nu that could only be a door opening, and a rush of air that she could feel on her calves, the only part of her body not covered by the cloak She was jostled through into another roonized the sensation of crossing a threshold, the opening feeling that e one, too, tall double doors, she thought