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DIVISIONS SALVATORE The blood boiled in my veins, excitement coursing through me for many reasons.
For that woman who fascinated meher defiant gaze, those luscious lips, even her figure, so much like Bes.
It was as if she had never left, as if she...
had never betrayed me.
But she did! Our dreams, everything we risked together! She never had the right to make that decision on her own.
When she failed to open the rift with her sorcery, there was still another way to strengthen it.
Why the hell would I care about the deaths of a few elemental cockroaches? Ten, a hundred, thousandsit was all the same to me! "crossing over could be dangerous," Brendas voice snapped me out of my turbulent thoughts.
I looked at the entrance, gaping like the mouth of a beast, the canyon stretching into the vast mountains.
My body trembled at the memory of what I had endured herest timeI had nearly died.
But this time, it would be differentwith her...
---- I turned to look at Katherine.
She woulde with me once the passage opened.
She would be mine, far from that mutt.
And obviously, with three people, we were already a crowd.
"Katherine, can you recite this enchantment? It will help mask our life force from the specters and wild creatures," I handed her another of the pages I had torn and stolen from that journal.
At least in this, I was ahead of Be.
"This one?" She pointed at the text, looking at me with those innocent eyes.
How would she look whileing undone? Would she be as passionate as Be? "Yes, little one, this one.
Can you understand it?" I whispered as I leaned closer, inhaling the fresh, delicious scent of her perfume.
"Give me...
give me a minute." Take all the time you need," I murmured, breathing the same air as her.
?Soon, if this works, if you can cast the spell, I''ll steal you away for myself? "Inspector,e here for a moment," Brendas sarcastic voice pierced my ear.
Inspector? Please.
She knew damn well I had ambushed and killed the real Mr.
Max.