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On ed to Lavinia Kane and time One I planned to kill as soon as possible That is, if I didn’t run out of the other one first

The dashboard clock flipped to 10:01 The ones ers Impatience was my third enemy

I’d already been sitting in the white van parked on a windy stretch of road near Pacific Palisades for twenty ine idled in preparation for the ambush

“Giguhl, any visual on the car yet?”

“Negative” His voice crackled through the earpiece, but his body was perched in a tree just outside the Dominae compound

I sighed “Okay, thanks”

“Don’t you er’?” he responded

“Whatever,” I said “Let ates open”

“Hey, Sabina?”

“Yeah?” I said a tad more impatiently than I intended

“Why can’t I have a gun again?”

I rolled ht be crazy, but I’m not stupid, G Now focus”

“I live to serve,” he grumbled

I settled back into the seat Outside the van, the landscape offered little distraction from my impatience Scrub brush, low stone walls, and roadkill speed buels rose above the shadowed hilltops like a dusty halo

Los Fucking Angeles

Whoever said you couldn’t go hoo hoain And when I’d left California, I’d promised myself that I wouldn’t return Ever But Fate— that fickle bitch— ain

Three days earlier, e estate in New York Three weeks before that I hadn’t even known she’d existed The long-story– short version is our vae father wasbetween the races was forbidden, Maisie and I were separated at birth by our varande side of the faing in Los Angeles The desire to eles

The fact our varandmother, Lavinia Kane, wanted me dead was the other

But now the tables had turned Lavinia had kidnapped Maisie in an effort to hurtof my own

Giguhl’s voice bounced offBlack is on the move Should be on your tail in T minus sixty seconds”

A sudden rush of blood My hands tightened on the wheel Showtime