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He shook his head "I’m Papa Bear Peltier You have a na you, N-n-nick" He pulled a token out of his pocket and held it out to hiame But I love the look of shock on people’s faces the first ti of beauty"

Nick took the token, but still wasn’t sure what to think

He’s a good guy, kid Thank him for the token

"Um, thanks"

Papa Bear patted hie so that he and another guy as an exact copy of Réround

"Close yourPapa only bites those who bare their teeth first"

He turned at the soft, lightly accented voice to find what had to be one of the eous women he’d ever seen Tall, blond, and built with the kind of curves men dreaht enough to make him really uncomfortable

"I’m Aimee Peltier You must be Nick"

Man, she had better powers than he did "How do you know my name?"

She leaned in to speak into his ear as if she were ireat secret to him "Your mother told me in the back room," she whispered

Oh yeah, duh He felt epically stupid with that

"C’mon and let me introduce you to the crew that is currently awake and functioning"

Unsure about that, Nick hesitated "Why?" Was she going to feed hi here and your school is just down the street, you’ll probably be hanging out a lot in the near future"

"Oh" Finally relaxing, he allowed her to lead him to the busboy with the monkey

"Wren, say hi to Nick"

The busboy didn’t respond other than to glare out fronarled hair

Aimee took it in stride "Wren doesn’t really speak But he’s a nice guy, and he lives next door in our house You’ll see him a lot, since he has no personal life or outside interests He basically works all the time" She scratched the monkey on its head "And his furry little friend is Marvin Marvin, say hi to Nick"

Thehirabbed him and held him close while Marvin er in his ear Ew!

"He likes to mess with people’s hair" Aimee held her hand out, and Marvin allowed her to pull hiar Keep some snacks handy, and he’ll be your new best friend" She nuzzled his nose before returning him to Wren

Wren didn’t say a word as Marvin perched on his shoulder Hedown the tables

Aimee led Nick away "You met Rémi when you arrived My best advice to you on that is to learn which of the quads he is"

"Quads?"

She gestured to the stage, where Papa and the Ré "I have four brothers who are identical quads Quinn!" she called

The younger werebear looked up

She smiled and waved hiht so, but soh it is, I can’t tell him from Cherif They have the same exact haircut, which they occasionally do to mess with us It’s normally a little shorter than Rémi’s and Dev’s Dev you can spot pretty easy because he’s always laughing and cracking sarcastic jokes--your ht up your alley He also has a double bow and arrow tattoo on his arm, and he’s most often the one at the door He took the day off to run over to Kenner to pick up a ave hirowls or doesn’t speak, assume it’s Réht out of its socket You don’t really have to do anything other than breathe to piss him off Word to the wise"

He made a mental note of that as she took him to the bar

"The blond is Jasyn Jasyn, say hi to Nick"

The werehawk inclined his head to hi is Justin"

Black hair, tall, and with an aura of I’ll kick your butt so hard, you’ll be burping my shoe leather Another one Nick intended to avoid

An older version of Aimee caht sight of him

He felt like he was under a microscope as she eyed him from head to toe

Finally, she held her hand out "Good day, Mr Gautier I am Nicolette But please, call lower melted into a kind expression "Welcome to our family I hear you work for Kyrian"

"I do Until he fires ive him reason to Besides, he doesn’t fire his people He kills theh "The poor boy doesn’t know you’re kidding"

"Nick? What are you doing here?"

He turned at the call that came from Alex’s sister Kara, who also went to school with theht to him, she had the same blond hair as Aimee and Mama Lo

Aimee explained his presence before he had a chance "Hisfor us, Kiki Why don’t you take him to the kitchen? I’, if they kept this up, he was going to be huge

But it would be worth it

Nick took a step toward the kitchen, then paused as a cold chill went down his spine So was here and it was evil

He searched the rooaze found the source of his discoh the door behind the woray hoodie, at first glance, he appeared like any guy around the age of twenty

Until Nick locked gazes with hi the intensity of this creature’s presence

He was Death, and he’d ridden in on a pale horse…