Page 252 of Sins of the Heart

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to hold on to her thoughts.

“What the bloody hell were you thinking, Gahiji?

She was offering up no threat.” British accent, hard and

clipped. It took her a second of swimming against the

brutal tide before understanding hit her. It was the third

soul reaper talking now.

“She is of the Asetian Guard. That is threat enough.”

She tried to focus her thoughts, and all she could

come up with was that she’d been right about the name.

Gahiji. Hunter. Seeker.

Huntingher.No that wasn’t right. He’d been

hunting someone else. She wanted to shake the

cobwebs from her head and pull a clear thought from

the bunch. Instead, all she got was cotton floss.

“Take him with you, Alastor.” Dagan again, speaking from close beside her. His voice was taut, angry.

He sounded like the slightest push would send him

over the edge.

“Take him where?”

“Anywhere but here. Go hunt down the Setnakhts.

Find out about what made Frank Marin so special.”

Staccato bursts of words. Like bullets. “Then go make

nice with Xaphan and his concubines. Smooth over

tonight’s debacle before it turns into a war.”

EVE SILVER

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Roxy tried to open her eyes, or maybe they were open

and she just couldn’t see. She knew Dagan’s hands were

on her chest, pressing, hurting. She wanted to push him

away. But she was weak. She was cold and shaking. So

she just lay there and let him do whatever he was doing.

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