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Sabine said, "Where are you?"

"I'm at the portal door"

"Then close it!"

"What about you?"

"I can ht now, I don't have a chance"

"But-"

"You have to do this!"

"I' her teeth with effort, Lanthe began sealing the portal, closing the rift she'd created The edges of the threshold were like the seaether to heal "Abie, hold on till I return!"

Just before she'd sealed the sides, Thronos shoved his boot inside He gazed down at her with silvery eyes, his wings'spread wide

Lanthe cast hi could keep the edges open now She heard the echo of his roar as his foot was severed, then she fell back onto the floor of her rooot to find a vampire, someone who could trace radual degrees, shoving her hands to her knees as she heaved for breath She glared at Thro-nos's booted foot Because of him, Sabine was stuck in

that plane

Lanthe yelled at the foot, "I' down on us! Five hundred years of this!" She punted it across the room

It sailed past Omort in the doorway "And you dare return without her"

Chapter 18

Sabine sensed quiet and felt her sister's absence, which h the portal She was likely safe

But now I'm screwed She had six days till her rescue would co? Dao to hire a vampire to trace her back She had no clue where to stay She could weave illusions of et a hotel room, but the Vrekeners would just home in on her sorcery

Why am I so despondent? I've been in ht be dying soon

No! She refused to believe that She'd heard the morsus attacked in waves She could withstand the first

episodes of pain Hell, she er hi! The accounts of people dying froony like Sabine had I've died dozens of times This will be old hat

She felt better about the e

So why aood thing and hadn't realized it soon enough The odds were sli ould press her head down to kiss her nape, as usually considerate and fair-except when he went demonic because she ran from him-and as also her husband

She wanted the deer wants me And it's alloncefor oers and the hopeless