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Marquis — Fortunes $5/10 minutes”.
    “Ah,” Gabriel said, trying to keep the disappointment from his face. From Cassie’s eye roll, he’d likely not accomplished it. To his credit, the Madame looked ridiculous; she was a sixty year old Caucasian woman decked out in full ‘gypsy’ costume, billowing scarves and skirts, a ring on each finger. She also wore a dubious-looking dark hairstyle that Gabriel was fairly certain must be a wig.
    “Don’t offend her, she’s very emotional,” Cassie warned him before he could comment.
    Gabriel couldn’t help but notice the way that the fortune teller shot to her feet when Cassie approached.
    “Oracle!” the seer gasped, eyes darting around and landing on Gabriel. Her expression turned from shock to curiosity after a moment. “And a Guardian?”
    “Yes, Madame,” Cassie said, stepping closer and offering a handshake. She flipped back her thick curtain of red hair. “Can we sit with you for a moment?”
    “Of course, Oracle,” Madame said, thrusting two canvas chairs in their direction. “Sit, sit.”
    “How did the cards work for you?” Cassie asked casually, ignoring the other woman’s obvious nervous excitement. To Gabriel, she explained, “I handle her cards, make them more accurate.”
    “Wonderful, wonderful,” Madame said, licking her lips and settling into her chair. She gathered the colorful tarot cards splayed out across the table into a neat stack, flipping them facedown. Madame’s hand crept out to caress a huge crystal ball, her gaze flicking back and forth between the ball and Cassie, hungry.
    “I need two things from you, Madame. In exchange, I can influence your cards again, and the seer’s ball if you want,” Cassie offered. As she spoke, she peeled off her right hand glove, staring at Madame as if challenging the woman to remark upon Cassie’s scars.
    To Gabriel’s surprise, the other woman didn’t seem to notice them. Her excitement for Cassie’s gift was simply too great to be affected by Cassie’s looks. In that moment, he realized that when it came to Cassie’s scars, her anxiety over others’ reactions was much greater than the reality.
    When Cassie took off her left glove, Madame’s eyes lit up for a moment, then dimmed.
    “Pere Mal will come,” Madame said, a little sadly. “He will know you’ve been here, I can’t do anything about that.”
    “Of course not, I wouldn’t ask you to tell him such a big lie,” Cassie said, running her fingertips over the satin tablecloth. “You can tell him I was here, but I do want you to leave out my friend, here. Pere Mal will know that I’m with the Guardians soon enough, he doesn’t need your help.”
    Cassie raised a questioning brow at Madame, who let out a pent-up breath.
    “Yes, yes,” the seer said, pushing the cards toward Cassie. Cassie moved to pick them up, then stopped.
    “There’s something else I need,” Cassie said.
    Gabriel watched the exchange with some fascination. For a woman who had supposedly lived in captivity for several years, Cassie was extremely socially adept. Growing up on the streets of London, Gabriel had known fishwives who’d have been jealous his pretty redheaded mate’s bargaining skills.
    He scowled, thoughts thrown off track. Mate , that insidious word. He wasn’t supposed to be thinking that way. His bear rose a fraction, letting Gabriel know his displeasure at Gabriel’s refusal to take Cassie on the spot, mark her and claim her for their own.
    “—need you to tell me how to find someone,” Cassie was saying when Gabriel fought his way back to the present conversation. “Someone who’s being kept, as I was.”
    “Ohhhh,” Madame murmured, watching Cassie’s fingers dance across the tabletop. “Oracle, I do not know such things…”
    Cassie seemed to consider that for a moment, then she made as if to rise.
    “If you can’t help me—” Cassie started.
    “No, no! Wait, wait,” the seer said, dropping her voice to a