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“Whatever,” I said “Can we just skip the philosophical debates for once?”
He shook his head “Okay then, why don’t you tellway out here?”
Heaving a deep sigh, I pulled my weapon David’s eyes widened as I aimed the custom-made pistol between them
His eyes pivoted froht tremor in my hands
“I should have knohen you called me,” he said “You never do that”
“Aren’t you going to ask me why?” His calm unsettled me
“I knohy” He crossed his ararded me closely “The question is, do you?”
My eye twitched “I know enough How could you betray the Dominae?”
He didn’t flinch “One of these days your blind obedience to the Do to be your downfall”
I rolled my eyes “Don’t waste your final words on another lecture”
He lunged before the last word leftthe breath out of le of liled to gain advantage He grabbed my hair and whacked e blurred my vision
My hands curled into claws and dug into his eyes Distracted by pain, he covered thee fueled my adrenaline as I flipped him onto his back My knees straddled his hips, and I belted him in the nose with the base ofhis lips and chin
“Bitch!” Like an anis into the fleshy part ofhirowled and shovedon my ass with a thud
Before I could catch ain Only this ti eye
“How does it feel, Sabina?” His face was close to mine as he whispered His breath stunk of blood and fury “How does it feel to be on the other end of the gun?”
“It sucks, actually” Despite lanced to the right and saw the shovel I’d used earlier lying about five feet away “Listen—”
“Shut up” His eyes ild “You knohat the worst part is? I ca to warn you about the Dominae and Clovis—”
“Warn me?”
David jae “That’s the irony isn’t it? Do you even knohat’s at stake here?” He cocked the hammer Obviously, the question had been rhetorical
One second, two, ticked by before the sound of flapping wings and a loud hoot filled the clearing David glanced away, distracted I punched hi I hauled ass to the shovel
Ti, I slashed the shovel in a wide arc A bullet ricocheted off the ain, but I lunged forward, swinging like Babe Ruth Thethud He collapsed in a heap