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“You were there.” At Roxy’s accusation, Naamah

offered a Cheshire Cat smile, pretty much confirming

that the dark shape she’d seen outside Marin’s motel

room had been one of Xaphan’s concubines. Probably

this one. “You went in after I left…”You saw me with

the kid.

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“We missed each other by seconds.”

“You two have met before?” Dagan sounded anything but patient.

“In a manner of speaking,” Roxy answered at the

same time Naamah said, “Shut your mouth, Otherkin.”

“How’d you find me?” Roxy asked. Someone had

sent these creatures to find her, in order to find Dana.

“It was easy enough to ask around, Otherkin. Your

name, your face…they’re well known among the

Topworld grunts.” Again with the creepy smile. “Big

Ralph had a great deal to say. Amazing how much a

man will talk when you got your mouth around his—”

Roxy shuddered and cut her off. “Thanks. I can do

without the details.”

The fact that her face was known wasn’t news to her.

It was one of her main duties to liaise with those

“grunts”—humans with just a whisper of supernatural

blood, and sometimes none at all—who did the Topworld dirty work for the more powerful Lords of the

Underworld.

“You must have little value to your handlers,”

Naamah taunted. “Finding you was no challenge at

all. There are few shields in place to hide your identity.”

And that wasn’t news to her, either. What was the

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