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The black haired vampire addressed as X stepped forward "A hu That same hitman botches the job twice, funny Then the desperate hits up, houl ends up with his head cut off by a mysterious redheadah Now I’m interested"

"Who’s your friend, honey?" I asked Bones, not taking my eyes off of X

"Forot brassed off when I killed several of his best clients"

Former coworkerX must not have been a small-time hit man for Bones to refer to him that hich meant the vaot downgraded from slim to screwed

"Could my old friend Bones be involved, I wondered?" X went on "The young heiress has government connections, it turns out, and so does the Reaper And the Reaper’s supposed to be such a bleeding heart when it comes to humans When another ruht, I took precautions in case I was right about as protecting her And lucky me, I was"

Precautions? That was one way to describe the dozen va us, all of ere arhtclub Would anyone come to our aid? Or would they stick to the whole "no violence on the pre" and stay the hell away?

"You’re here for me, leave her out of it," Bones said, with a barely perceptible nod at Tao back inside, and we’ll settle this ourselves"

"She may not be why I’m here, but I’ll be sure to kill her, too, so I don’t risk war"

Clever bastard If X killed us while ere defending Tammy, he could call it business Tammy had a contact out on her; otherwise, Bones’s people could consider it personal and retaliate for our slaughter X was covering his bases well

Taenial smile "If it makes you feel better, your cousin’s dead I killed him after I learned what I needed to know about you"

So that’s why Don couldn’t find Gables, not that it did us any good now

Bones glanced at ry yet?"

I knehat hepower froht to keep that borrowed ability under control But now, I let all the repressed anger, determination, fear, and sadness froulfed in blue flaround

"Kill her!" X shouted

Knives flew aton X Two o, I’d burned an entire property and explode a Master valaring at X Burn

Excepthe didn’t catch fire Sparks still shot fro more lethal came out of them I shook ers!

But the previous, deadly streams of fire that had scared erous thing I could do with arette

"Oh, shit," ree rabbed for e another hail of blades aimed at me Some of them found their mark, but none in my chest, thank God Still, that silver burned where it landed,soe Bones had just sent Then I rolled behind one of the cars for cover, finally getting the chance to snatch out the silver es

Tammy screamed as some of the vampires took to the air I took two of the knives I’d pulled fro at the vampire closest to where she was crouched The blades found their mark, and he crashed into a car instead of Tammy and my mother, as crouched over her

The rest of the va with Taet to Bones - and then screamed as my shirt went up in flames

Goddamnit! There must have been oil drops pooled underneath the truck I’d rolled under, and the useless sparks froht?" Bones called out

"Fine!" I yelled back, afraid he’d get killed rushing to check on me