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information from Marin so the Asetian Guard could use
it to make certain the dead reaper stayed dead.
Marin hadn’t been particularly forthcoming, and it
looked like she might have saved the kid only to leave
her in worse danger. Not the most glowing success of
her career.
But at least she’d had the foresight to ask Calliope
to move Dana to a safe house. That’d keep the kid
from getting snatched again. Calliope was good at her
business. The best.
Roxy shifted her weight, hissed at the pain. She was
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basted and cooked and a little charred, and no closer
to figuring out what the hell was going on than she’d
been before Xaphan’s bedmates showed up to play.
“Guess Marin didn’t give you enough info before
you killed him. That why you came after me?”
“What are you talking about?” Xaphan’s concubine
threw up one hand in a dismissive gesture. “Marin was
dead by the time I reached him. I couldn’t exactly get
information from his corpse.”
A chill chased across Roxy’s skin. “What areyou
talking about? I left him alive.” And Xaphan’s concubine had to have reached him within moments. How
could he have been dead?
Her gaze slid to Dagan. His expression was unreadable, his posture alert.
She looked back and forth between her two supernatural inquisitors. An impossible scenario came to
her.
She’d almost afforded Dagan the temporary position
of ally. Maybe that was a mistake. Either Xaphan’s concubine was lying about Marin being cold by the time
