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Money? What did this have to do withencroaching upon led My head cocked to the side Static filled the air, devouring oxygen Blake gagged, dropping to his knees

The Aru the door Their black tendrils reached out, knocking off furniture and sending picture fra so soon?" a deep, furious voice said from the doorway "I’m offended"

Daemon shifted into his true form and took out the first Arum with one blast followed by another…and then another Pieces of it broke away and floated up and up, disappearing into thin wisps before they reached the ceiling

I drew Residon, the one who’d wanted Dee, back toball My light pulsed Daemon’s flared

Residon roared

Tell hts

I told hihn while orked on Residon, tearing hi to work theopen When he got nowhere with that, he grabbed the floor lalass

I froze the lahn spun around, dashing behind Daemon In the chaos, Blake had made it outside somehow So had Daemon and Residon Three for sound, and it drove deep insidea part of e oaks ca near the driveway

Ash was in her hu him into her lap Her head was tipped back, herbeside her, growing stronger and stronger And I knew her ould soon join Ash’s

Vaughn? Blake? They wouldn’t escape this I glided out of the living rooround, but I didn’t feel the steps I passed Matthew as he rushed into the living room; the startled cry he let out splintered hter than I’d ever seen A pure, concentrated white light tinged in red as he darted down the driveway toward the ht flared intensely, and I threw up ht of the DOD officers he’d turned to ash…and again I thought of an atohtning shot fro him into the air Suspended, the Arum flickered from shadows to human form and then froze, his upper body hu more than smoke

And he broke into a thousand shards with a loud crack that sounded like thunder

The snow fell heavier

Out of the corner offro in Gun in hand, he rushed toward his Expedition at the same moment Blake spun toward the woods

Before I could even ht-encased arhn, exposing hiave with a crunch Glass exploded in every which direction as metal snapped

In awe of such power, I froze

Dae hiainst the hood ofor powerful

"You have no idea how painful I’ to ht "For every bruise you gave Kat, I’ to return to you tenfold" He lifted Blake offto seriously enjoy this"

Vaughn un

"Daeer Once Twice Three times

Daemon’s head jerked around and he smiled--he actually smiled And the bullets…they stopped inches from Daemon’s face They just hovered there, as if someone had pressed pause

"You really shouldn’t have done that," Daehn’s pale face "No--no!"

The bullets flipped over and returned to the sender with an alarhn in the chest and that was that There was no chance for anybut a lifeless heap beside the twisted metal of the Expedition

Red spread across the snow in a strea the side oftoward the woods He was fast

Not as fast as Daemon, and not as fast as ave chase Blood didn’t puht up to Blake by a pine tree He spun around, sending a blast of light athtened…and I tracked forward

He threw another pulse of light