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said, silky soft.You get to her through me,he didn’t say,
but Roxy heard it anyway. And judging by the belligerent expression on her lovely, terrifying face, so did
Xaphan’s pet. What was it with him and the macho
thing? He’d left her to her fate for eleven years. Why
did he suddenly care what happened to her?
Only answer she could come up with was that she
had something he wanted. Something everyone wanted.
Nose to nose, Dagan and Xaphan’s concubine did
the death-stare thing. More power to ’em. The reaper
wanted to stand in front of her with armor shining and
white steed pawing the air?
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Knock yourself out, buddy.
Roxy tested her weight on her injured limb.Damn.
Her ankle felt like a well-turned pork roast. She had a
hole in her new jeans and a massive blister on her knee
where she’d contacted the genie’s skin, never mind a
burned and oozing hand. She felt like she’d been sent
to cooking class in the pitch-dark, complete with sharp
knives and a gas stove.
Slowly, she began to back away, thoughts spinning.
She hated missing the obvious, and she was dead certain that she was doing exactly that. All these powerful
Underworld factions wanted a piece of Dana. Question
was: Why? She needed to figure out the answer. Fast.
Not just because it was her job, but because she felt a
personal connection.
She didn’t like kids. Didn’t like jobs that involved
kids. Never went near a movie theater or a mall during
rugrat high-traffic hours. Butthiskid was different.
