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“You’re sure? Everyone accounted for?” Jerking the wheel, I pulled into the nearest parking spot and lurched out of the car, taking my cell phone with me

“We’re all here Alek, Hawke, and I are in the war roo roo their thirteen-billionth hour of local news They ran out of NASA docu?” He asked, then I heard hi me on speaker

“I’ as htclub “Avianna?”

“In her room with Jocelyn,” Hawke answered “Why Alek continues to let a witch on the premises, I’ll never know”

“They’re friends,” Alek retorted “And I’o”

“Check,” I ordered, ignoring the staring huripped me with iron fists The last time I’d felt like this, side Alek’s

“He’s going,” Lachlan said through the phone

“Everything going okay with Saint tonight?” Imy best to not stick my head between my knees

Saint was a fuckingto incinerate us all He’d already been driven toward bloodmadness before the Hunters had entered stasis, and now that they were awake, we all took turns ns that he’d slide into darkness

God help us if that happened, because I wasn’t sure any of us could destroy Saint with his twin brother, Sa hi Sa put himself and the rest of their brotherhood into stasis for hundreds of years—to protect Saint

“He fed normally and seemed okayhim last, but that was around seven,” Lachlan said “We’ve beenout the pattern of the latest attacks while you’ve been at your appointment”

It was close to ht now

A couple swiftly moved out of my way as I strode toward the velvet rope of the club, led by a compulsion I couldn’t identify My stomach clenched, and my mouth watered like I was about to vomit, but I hadn’t been sick in at least a hundred years What the fuck was going on?

“Benedict, what—” Alek started

A figure stu hysterically, her hands thrown out in front of her as she hurtled toward the ground in a tangle of lavender hair

Fuck I was i her in my arms before she could meet the pavement The cool kiss of frozen air onit It’s dark No one saw At least, that’s what I told myself