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The officer obligingly lowered the flashlight I tried to blink away the spots that noam in my vision “Oh, hey, Kara It’ssoave a small chuckle

I returned the chuckle Luckily we’d already come up with a hopefully believable fiction for ere tro nefarious I was bringing ot away froesture toward Eilahn— “and I are trying to see if we can find it now that there aren’t a lot of people and cars around to scare it”

His gaze shifted to Eilahn and lingered there I couldn’t really blame him The form she’d taken after I summoned her was female Or, to be more specific, smokin’ hot chick Tall and athletic, with violet eyes and sleek dark hair that flowed past her shoulders, she soed to look Asian, Jewish, Indian, Swedish, and black all at once Right now she was dressed in jeans, low-heeled boots, and a snug-fitting long-sleeved black shirt Yeah, I’d have stared too if it washer I tried not to think about the contrast between us I was about three inches shorter, with boring gray eyes, poker-straight mud-brown hair that was y, I sure as hell didn’t have anything rese an athletic build

“I just got off shift,” he said, gaze not leaving Eilahn “I’d be glad to help you look What’s your cat’s name?”

Eilahn shot ri to help us look for a cat in the ht “Erm, its name is Fuzzykins”

The dee a whit, but I could feel the withering Fuzzykins? That’s the best you can do? as clearly as if we’d shared a telepathic bond Da we didn’t I really wasn’t sure I wanted to knohat she was thinking most of the time

“Fuzzykins,” the officer repeated, grinning “I love it I’m Tim, by the way,” he said to the demon “I don’t think we’ve met”

“Eilahn,” she replied with an easy smile

“Nice to meet you, Ellen,” he said I bit back a smile as her eyes narrowed at his mispronunciation “So, what’s this cat look like?”

Her eyes flicked back to ain “It’s, um, a calico” Those were sort of rare, weren’t they? “Without a tail”

“A calico Manx Well, that shouldn’t be hard to h

Ah, hell He really did intend to help us look for this nonexistent feline So ht

“Tim,” Eilahn said with a tilt of her head “Perhaps you could run to the store for us and purchase soave hi in my pocket and came up with a battered twenty-dollar bill that I passed to her In turn she pressed it into his hand without ever breaking eye contact, letting her fingers linger on his

The poor boy never had a chance Half a minute later he screamed off in his cruiser

I cocked arded the demon “How the hell did you learn how to do that?”