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"What the hell are you two doing here?" Xhex hissed as she lowered her dagger

Trez&039;s expression gave her a big-ass helping of well, duh "Rehv called us"

Characteristically, iAm stayed quiet at his brother&039;s side; he just nodded and crossed his ar an excellent i nowhere And as the twin Shadows stared down at her, they were shielding the their bodies and voices only to her

For a retted their discretion Hard to knee the busy- bodies in the balls when they were in their ghosting fors?" Trez murmured while he searched her face "Been a lifeti him back on a frequency the humans and any lessers wouldn&039;t be able to hear, she er"

Except then she cursed and wrapped her arms around the two steak- heads anyway The Shadoere notoriously private with their emotions and harder to infiltrate than humans or even vampires, but she could feel their pain over what she had been through

As she went to pull back, Trez tightened his hold and shuddered "I&039;oing to see you again--"

She shook her head "Stop Please There&039;s never a good time for that and here is certainly not the place I love you both, okay, and I&039;ht So let&039;s drop it"

Well, sort of tight As long as she didn&039;t think about John stuck back at thatinsane Thanks to her

Ah, how history repeated itself

"I&039;ll stop before we get ainst his ebony face "We&039;re just glad you&039;re all right"

"Stipulated Or I wouldn&039;t be here"

"Not sure about that," he said under his breath as he and his brother looked through the"Wow Someone had fun in there"

A stiff breeze whiffled through, bringing a fresh blast of baby powder from a new direction, and all three of their heads turned

Out on the dirt lane in front of the house, a car rolled by that had no business anywhere near cornfields The thing was all Fast & Furious, a Honda Civic that had been to the autootten a Play-boy makeover: With a whale tail and an air daround clearance as well as a paint job that was gray and pink and a retina-burning yellow, it was like a Midwestern girl who&039;d fallen into porn

And what do you know the lesser behind the wheel had an expression that didn&039;tUnless soas tank

"I will bet my forties that&039;s the new Fore-lesser," Xhex said "No way Lash would allow a second in command that kind of ride I spent four weeks with that fucker and everything was all about him"

"Switch at the top" Trez nodded "Happens a lot with theot to follow that car," she said "Quick, get on him--"

"Can&039;t leave you Orders fro me?" Xhex looked fro whale tail "Go! We need to track him--"

"Nope Unless you want to and then we&039;ll hit it with you, right, iAm"

As the other Shadow nodded once, Xhex felt like punching the alu ridiculous"

"Hardly You&039;re waiting for Lash to show up here and I know you&039;re not going to want to just talk to hi you--and don&039;t bother hitting me with the you&039;re- not-the-boss-of-me shit I have selective deafness" iAm actually spoke up "He really does"

Xhex locked eyes on the license plate of that ridiculous Honda, thinking, Oh, for fuck&039;s sake Then again, if the two Shadoeren&039;t here, she would have stayed put; just taken the nuht where she was She could always trace them later

"Make yourself useful," she snapped "And givein a pizza? I&039;ry" Trez flipped her his BlackBerry "I like a lot of meat on mine My brother prefers the cheese"

Xhex called Rehv out of contacts and hit hiet to the Brothers When voiceon that car and asked for Vishous to track the up and fired the phone back to Trez

"No Domino&039;s then?" hea curse, she frowned and reiven her a phone Shit she was not as sharp as she should be in this situation--

"And another department is heard from" iAm said

Her eyes shot to the road as an unmarked came to a stop in front of the house The hoot out was someone she knew Jose de la Cruz

At least the huain, reat news The less involvement of that other race in a situation like this, the better, and de la Cruz had the instincts and follow-through of a bloodhound

Man it was going to be a loooooong frickin&039; day A very, very long frickin&039; day

As she watched the humans ht of her bodyguards pressing down on her head, her right hand began to htaways John had taught her

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Lash woke up to the sound offacedown on a bare mattress in that cheesy-ass ranch was another buzz kill Third strike was the fact that when he finally got up, his body left a black stain behind

Kind of like a shadow thrown on the ground, a reflection of what actually was

Jesus f&039;n Christ He was like that Nazi guy at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the one whose face melted off the one the DVD extras had said was special effected by hitting Jell-O with a hot fan

Not exactly the sort of movie role he wanted to rock in RL

As he walked out toward the kitchen, he felt like he was dragging a refrigerator behind hi much better as she lay on the floor by the back door She&039;d been drained enough to incapacitate her, but not enough to zap her back to the Oa

Bummer for her To be forever on the brink of death, with all that pain and suffocation, and yet aware that the vast peace on the other side of all that was never coh to h track

Then again she didn&039;t have a clue that she was going nowhere That she would be forever in "as-is" condition Probably best to keep that info on the do--it would be his good deed for the day

As she roan for him to help, he stepped over her and went to check on the food sitch To conserve cash, he&039;d sucked back Mc- Crap for dinner on his way here Shit had been one step up fro food, and that had been ware did not improve the half he hadn&039;t been able to stoht, but he ate as left over anyway Cold Standing up over the cru on the countertop