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the shadows. He captured her delicate wrist and pulled her behind his body, shielding her.
    â€œShe looks tasty,” someone said from the shadows.
    â€œYou’ll never know,” Soren said.
    Faith leaned closer to him. She must have finally become aware of the danger.
    Footsteps moved steadily toward them, and he dropped his head, studying the sounds, blindly memorizing every movement ahead of him. The demon’s steps echoed off the building. He wasn’t facing it.
    He’d backed Faith up against the car, and the sound shifted, coming from behind them.
    Gun already pulled free, he turned. Cupping the back of her head, he pulled her tight to his chest. But the creature was fast, and before he found it in the dark, a slicing pain tore across his wrist. The gun dropped from his hand.
    â€œNot so easy now, is it, vampire? With no weapon, how will you defend this little morsel?”
    Soren pushed Faith against the car, keeping her far from the demon. A knife glinted in the creature’s hand. The demon twisted it, waiting for an attack. He would have one.
    * * * *
    Faith couldn’t watch his fist connect with the man’s face. A few more punches, a muffled snap, and then silence.
    She looked from the crumpled man to Soren. No one had ever pounded a man into the pavement to keep her safe before. She didn’t know the rules for something like that. Did you thank the man, or scold him? Somehow she felt like she ought to do both.
    The man on the ground lay motionless, the light catching something wet beneath him.
    â€œYou really hurt him. I think he’s bleeding.” She squinted as she bent down, getting a closer look in the dim light.
    â€œIt’s not hurt, Faith, it’s dead. Get in the car,” Soren said, pushing her into the passenger seat and shutting the door.
    Dead. She looked at the man’s face one last time through the film of dirt on the car window.
    Red eyes stared blankly back. Red eyes.
    Numbly she was aware of Soren getting in the car, putting it into motion, and taking out his phone.
    â€œGustav, there’s a body where you park your crappy car,” he grumbled. Muffled yelling came through on the other end of the phone. “Just take care of it.”
    The more she thought about this whole situation, the more frightened she became. Here she sat in a car with a killer. Okay, so he had saved her life twice, but he’d just killed a man with his bare hands. That might be a normal, everyday thing for a vampire, but it had shaken her, badly.
    And if he truly was a vampire, then what other creatures were running loose in the world? And was her attacker part of that mythical group? People didn’t have red eyes, and Soren’s eyes weren’t red. What did he kill? “His eyes were red,” she said aloud, still looking out the side window.
    â€œI know.”
    â€œHis eyes were red,” she said more firmly. If he was avoiding it, it meant something.
    â€œFaith—”
    She smacked the dash. “Damn it, Soren, why were his eyes red?”
    â€œIt was a demon,” he said, not meeting her glare.
    She stared at him, her jaw slightly unhinged, then nodded slowly. “Of course he was. Why didn’t I think of that?” The pitch of her voice rose several notches. “Great, there is a hell.”
    â€œThere is, but these creatures didn’t come from hell. Demons are simply another species of human, the same as vampire.” A smile turned his lips upward.
    â€œRight, and how many species are there?” Her fingers tapped the armrest.
    â€œFour. Human, vampire, demon, and wolf.”
    â€œWolf? As in Werewolf? I didn’t see that in the brochure.” Faith glanced out the window, and muttered, “While in Paris, be sure to see the damned.”
    â€œNone of us are damned. Well, the Wolves are, but that’s what you get for pissing off a witch. What’s left of them reside somewhere outside London.