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We stepped into darkness with the rest of them, threw into the stream the weapons we’d confiscated And, like the rest of the supernaturals hurrying out of the club, we disappeared into the night

CHAPTER NINE

SHAKE IT OFF

Gabriel had left us athatus to stop by Little Red

We’d get there, but first we had er It felt like there were gears in ainst one another I was dizzy, light-headed, and aching with need

That I ached with other needs, too, would have to wait for a more opportune moment

Super Thai was a hole in the wall in West Town, not far from Little Red A tiny woman escorted us to a plastic-lined booth, where I ordered pad Thai Whatever the fight had done to me, I needed peanuts and noodles, and I needed theed to wait until the waitress put the plate in front of me I mixed peanuts and cilantro into noodles, dousedin

"I’m sorry," I said when I’d inhaled two enormous forkfuls "I can’t stop ht have been lamour," Ethan said He’d declined food, and noatched me like a scientist "Perhaps because your susceptibility ca to it"

"That and the fact that I just battled a two-hundred-pound warrior queen with a personal vendetta But as for the glas"

It was another reason a vas to ease the process Ethan had aduilt that I hadn’t been able to consent to my transition because I was bloodied and unconscious at the tiret in his eyes Pointless, since he’d saved ht best to saveenough to drink frolass of ice water that had accolass Why was that?

"How do you want to deal with La Douleur?"

"We’ll talk to Luc, add the club to the infor about the Circle, about Reed"

"We need to tell randfather Make an anonymous report tomorrow, if you want Give Cyrius time to report back to Reed first But he’s still part of the Circle, and the CPD should know it"

Ethan smiled, lifted his phone "I submitted an anony the e, said anted to get clear before the CPD cahinto a doubly hazardous neighborhood, but neither did I want to hold back information "Good"

"I mean, I had plenty of ti rolls, the curry, and the pad Thai, you gave that h inspection"

I made a juvenile face Ethan’s expression sobered "You saw the wo?"

"The one with the black eyes?"