een holding slipped from her fingers and shattered on the fl
unded distant, underwater
de her skull. Her vision blurred, doubled, then suddenly sharpened
oom, sweat and perfume and something u
feet away as clearly as if peo
, but her voice came ou
haking. No. Not
sharpened, darkened to black points. The skin of he
ocking into a table. Glasses crashed t
zy grabbed h
e! Should
rough her chest, into her bones. It felt like her skeleton was trying
outh to scream a
bl
e, clawing need that made everything else disappear except the pulse points of every person in the room. She c
hispered. "
ghts e
ower of sparks and glass. Someone screamed. In the sudden d
clear and edged in colo
w her reflection in th
glowing from within. One gold, one crimson, one viole
fuck," she
ehind her ex
from the street outside. Rachel spun, her new predato
twisted, wrong, with too-long fangs and eyes that had gone completely black. His
a man lifted its head a
h a mouth full of
nded like worship and hunger and madn
lf at her with i
as the creature's claws raked through the space where her head had been a second before. She hi
un to track her. Its movements were jerky, broken, like a pup
screamed from some
enough. Claws caught her shoulder, tearing through fabri
re was someo
ly the creature was being ripped away from her. Rachel hit
boss's boss, the man she'd been crushing on from a safe distance for t
. Bright, burning, inhuman gold.
e a rumble that resonated in her
hing's head off wi
inal sound. Rowan dropped the head b
aws. Her eyes still glowed with three impossible colors. And Rowan Blackwood was walking toward her with glowin
him-whiskey and pine and something wild that made her want to
iling. That cocky, dangerous smile that she'd only ever seen from across
ut one blood
ges rippling through her body, the dead thing on the floor, the
ingers
the last thing Rachel saw before darkness swallo
not
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