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“Get down!” Tallulah Talbot, the rabbed on to my arm and hurled us both into the bushes Seconds later an explosion hit with the force of a meteor I shielded my face and body as rocks peppered down around us Once it stopped, I rolled over and openedout dirt as I rose to my knees

I squinted through the brush “Do you see what I’?” I pointed to a crater the size of a city bus in thelot The noise had rockedoff my clothes Tally was already up next to me “What kind of an explosion was that?”

It had come out of the blue

Before she could respond, Rourke was in front of me He had several holes in his shirt, but the small wounds had already closed He hauledonce-over

“I’ hione through battling Selene, I was still on edge The Lunar Goddess had put up quite a fight, but in the end I had h to send her to the Underworld The lol in Rourke’s chest itated as I was Five one an extre way

“That wasn’t a nor lot “Look at the dae That hole has to be fifteen feet deep and just as wide”

“It was a Mask Orb” Tally e her skullcap She was dressed in all black, her white hair neatly tucked away, and at five feet tall with zero chest, she channeled a twelve-year-old boy, not an all-powerful spell caster “It searches out a target and explodes once it finds its uys only have a few tricks up their sleeves, so they tend to use them tirelessly” She smirked “The Mask Orbs are impossible to detect until two seconds before they detonate, when they give off a tiny pfft of air It’s a flaw in their spell You just became the luckiest people alive, because I have a built-in detector on me at all times” She patted her backside

Tyler ran up, followed by Danny and Nick They were all in one piece Thank goodness supernaturals had preternatural speed, because e of an explosion

When Tally had yelled, everyone had moved

“We need to get out of here,” Tyler said as he started to herd us forward “The Huure out our next s to explode”

“If there was another one, it would’ve gone off already,” Tally said “A Mask Orb is left as a calling card It was ht when you arrived” She nodded toward me, because we all knew it had my name all over it “But the chunderheads must have activated it by the front entrance, so it took ti, was a very lucky break” She bent over and dusted debris off her jeans “But now that it’s been detonated, they know you’re here, so lingering isn’t advisable”

I glanced around at the group We were all asse We’d just learned that Jaht had gone rogue, had taken off after Marcy Talbot,to Tally, Marcy had been recently abducted by sorcerers, the ones behind the new gaping crater in ic about as behind the kidnapping She clearly knehat she was talking about, especially if she had a Mask Orb detector embedded in her ass