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“But what if they break through? How can we possibly defend ourselves against a pair of demons?”

“We don’t have to defend ourselves,” he said “We just have to get away, and they probably wouldn’t co seems like it’s beneath them It’s more likely they’d send their foot soldiers, and by the ti gone”

“Foot soldiers suggests they have an army”

I grimaced when he said, “Just a s you into the h I think you’re ht in their backyard, and if they’d ever linked you to e”

I asked, “What did you do to get on their bad side?”

“I got close to them and earned their trust, and then I took down their hu operation from the inside I think you know al, so it was easy enough to get an introduction and ingratiate ”

“You did that on your own?” When he nodded, I asked, “Why wouldn’t you go to the police, or the FBI?”

“What could human law enforcement possibly do to terful demons?”

He had a point “What happened to the victims?”

“I freed seventy-two people froed to turn the traffickers’ entire network against each other before I was found out It’ll take theet bored easily, so they ht have found a neay to entertain themselves at humankind’s expense by now”

I reached across the table and took his hand as I said, “What you did was really brave, and I’m proud of you”

“It was just a drop in the bucket,” he muttered “I wish I could have driven theainst the”

“It was more than a drop in the bucket to the people you saved”

He squeezed ot up As he started to clear the table, he said, “That’s my only consolation, but all I can think about is how many more people the brothers could hurt on a whih power to stop them”