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"Next time, lock the damn door," Cass said
Alexia elbowed her brother "What she said"
"Why do you need Jeff?" Cian asked, his Irish accent more pronounced than usual It irked hihter’s face Her subtle expressions ghosted his own
"Shit is going down in an epic way and we need Jeff He’s not at the shop and he’s not answering his phone We’re tracking someone and we need infor?"
"His naan He’s a bounty hunter," Cass answered "He’s been hired by soreat occult power"
Aimee yanked a photo out of her pocket and handed it to Cian It was the shot of a ring resting on a velvet pad Aathered around, too
"The Suled voice Her eyes had returned to nornize it, Dad?" Cassandra was obviously needling Cian
"No, I don’t He didn’t wear a ring like this when I ith him," Cian said sos are bad news," Aimee explained "We were hired to lift one off a vaot messy"
"He bled a lot," Cassandra adaze back and forth between the touys," Cassandra said defensively
"They’re thieves and vaainst Cassandra, rapped a protective arot ot really bloody And the ring" Cass took a deep breath "The ring touched the blood of a mortal as in the room when I kind of took the head off the vampire master of Dallas"
"So you killed him Not Courtney who took his place" Eduardo looked iot in the way When the huweird shit started to happen" Cass shifted on her feet unco the veil between our world and the other one I snagged the ring and threw it into an ice bucket to get the blood off Once it was clean, the rip healed But soh"
"It took a whole lot of firepower and ic to take it down," Ai over to the person who hired us A ring like this in the hands of the wrong person is bad news So we bailed and went into hiding," Cassandra aduy who hired us was dead"
"So we investigated it and figured out that the guy who hired us had been a front for another vaathered around theuy was hired by a Professor Suo after the satanic killings in East Texas"
"Jeff had told us about you, Amaliya We knew that The Summoner made you and used that poor sap as a cover Just like him to play off the siarded Ahtfully "We found one of The Su on hi already and was looking for s?" Cian arched his eyebrows at the sahter did
Cassandra took back the picture of the ring from Cian and handed it back to Ai nuh A here to talk to Jeff about the ring when one of our people got a lead about the ring and Ethan Logan They said he was tracking down A"
"How do you knoe don’t have the ring?" Cian asked
"Neither one of you is wearing it," Cass answered "And if you possessed this ring, you’d be wearing it Its power is addicting When I held it inhas some major mojo infused into it"
"The Suraveyard, buried forever," Aasped "That’s why they’re digging up his re! Not to turn Aood," Benchley said nervously "This isn’t good at all"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Aio, and Innocente out in Fenton digging up the pieces of The Summoner," Benchley blurted out "Cynthia called Jeff today when she couldn’t get a hold of Sergio Jeff and Sa on Ethan told all of them he has a ritual to restore Amaliya to mortal, but that he needed The Summoner’s reer flooding hian! She never wanted us to begin with She just wanted us distracted while they used A!"
Aroup and broke into a sprint
"Aet to my family!" Amaliya disappeared into the trees
"They’re in Fenton! You can’t run there!" Benchley shouted after her
"Who does she think she is? Wonder Woht now digging up his re soon, if they don’t already Those rings are dangerous," Ai Cassandra’s aret there," Benchley exclai up her hands at Cian