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ion with Damia

had fallen

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rang, sharp

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er on her sixteenth birthd

ver y

breath

scrap of paper, the words scrawl

he only one w

nds shook

ted it, and stumbled back into the living

one

lse from

ugh to reach her pent

wanted her

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his private gym, pounding his fists into

, a file clutch

thing," Gregor

at from his brow, hi

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ving her

at a

, soaked in rain,

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amian demanded

ow. He's good. Erased the security t

s jaw t

was in

just f

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till had breat

rdered. "Discreetly. I want to know wh

sts cl

bury

go to the off

e, every noise sending

sharp, living t

e couldn't ta

eded a

eeded

nd hurried downstairs to

for her car door

ling sensation

asn't

d, Belle scann

th

of fluorescent

being jumpy and slid

of her spot, she caught mov

ting between cars

pulse sk

, peeling out of the garage so fast t

n't loo

coul

she might

n't ready f

er, Belle burst in

ook at her and grabbe

hell happe

he locket into

at it, her e

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face da

nk it's

k her head

meone who hates me mo

ed under

d. "You're not just playing hunter any

nds curled

t is. I need to end t

hesit

n who might know,"

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bit h

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'll sell me out the s

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losed h

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eared into the underwo

m was like danc

was out

mies she co

she could

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nod

" she warned. "You're w

d a tight, b

ived in

in the backseat of a black

n't interfere. But if anyone so much as

efore the ma

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uld wa

let her de

he dese

e cou

ould

e back from the

heaven and earth t

it kil

th Marco was s

edral on the outs

dramatic and f

loaked in black, her h

pews, her body t

was exactly as she remembered

tepping into the moonli

dn't was

something

laughe

sweetheart, you'd alr

did?" sh

s smil

ly. "Big ones. Ones that never forgave you

blood

she whi

ose, his breath ho

night of the fire," he murm

stomach

a gunshot rang out, shatteri

or instinctively

peared into

s pounde

to her feet, h

gun in hand, face hidden - was

hu

had survived

ho had co

night, the sound of footsteps

into the da

orner, she slammed ha

s gripped h

mi

as h

hers - fierce, desper

re was

he hunter was

e wasn't sure she c

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