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Chapter 27

With my heart lodged in my throat, I whipped around, but Hendry still clung to the wall, seemingly whole. Relief eased through my chest as I followed his gaze straight down.

The powerful vampire stood below us, half his body angled away from the road while his gray eyes, silver in the moonlight, zeroed in on something I couldn't see. Without looking, he plucked something from his shoulder - a bullet, I realized.

"Now that I have your attention, I have a question for you..." the voice from the street said.

It was Bast. What the hell was he doing? Trying to get himself killed?

I gripped the edge of the building and peered out to see what on earth he could be thinking behind his empty eye sockets, but Hendry forced me back when he hoisted himself up.

"What makes you think you're worthy of controlling witches?" Bast asked. "A pair of young ones just waltzed into your nest and then right out again. That should tell you something right damn there."