Elemental Assassin 02 - Web of Lies

certainly was fun,” Finn said in a cheery front she’d put on for Tobias Dawson’s sake had vanished, voice.
    leaving her round face ashen and sweaty, despite the fall chill. “You didn’t do anything, Gin. Why didn’t you do The five of us stayed on the porch a few more minutes, something? Why didn’t you tell Dawson to back off and but Dawson and his men didn’t turn around and come leave us alone?”
    back. When I was sure they were gone, I tucked my sil“Because I didn’t want him to notice me,” I said. “Not verstone knives back up my sleeves. Then I stepped off here, not now. That would make getting close to him the porch and walked over to the spot where Tobias Dawlater more difficult. The dwarf barely looked at me. He son had stood so I could get a better sense of his magic. won’t remember what I look like later, when I approach The gravel underneath my feet hummed with so much him again.”
    power it made my skin tingle and the spider rune scars on
    “You mean when you kill him,” Donovan Caine said my palms itch. So the dwarf was a Stone elemental then. in a cold, flat voice.
    Someone who could control and manipulate the element.
    “Yes,” I said. “When I kill him.”
    Strong in his magic, just like me.
    Donovan stared at me. His eyes shimmered like liquid I wondered if the dwarf had any other magical or gold in his tight face. After a few seconds of scrutiny, he special talents I needed to know about—before I killed shook his head. “You know I can’t let you do that. I can’t him. Either way, Tobias Dawson had just morphed from let you go after Tobias Dawson.”
    a challenging kill into an exceptionally difficult one. I’d I sighed. Despite the fact the detective and I had have to take him out hard and fast before he even realworked together before, we were once again right back ized what was happening. otherwise, I’d be the one who where we started. With him clinging to his oh-so-high, ended up six feet under.
    moralistic ideals and standing in the way of me doing
    “What are you doing?” Donovan Caine asked, watchwhat simply needed to be done. ing me turn around in a circle in the spot where the dwarf
    “I don’t see how you have much of a choice, detective,”
    had stood.
    Finn cut in. “Because Tobias Dawson isn’t going to stop
    “Nothing.”
    harassing the Foxes until he gets this land. Which means The detective knew that I had magic, that I was an Ice he’s not going to stop until they’re both dead. The bastard elemental, but I’d never told him about my greater, Stone sent his brother to rape and murder Violet last night. A power. My magic wasn’t something I advertised, and I nineteen-year-old girl who’s probably never hurt anyone still wasn’t quite sure what my relationship with Donovan in her entire life. And here you are trying to protect him, Caine was—or what it would ever be.
    when you should be worried about a young woman and Violet Fox hugged her chest with her arms. The brave her grandfather. What’s wrong with this picture?”
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    Donovan turned his hot glare to Finn, who stared back Violet. But yeah, I’m going to take care of Dawson for at the detective. Both men had their hands clenched into you.”
    fists. I sighed again. Finn was on my side, of course, just
    “Why?” Warren Fox asked. “I knew the kind of fees like a brother would be, and his words and logic were Fletcher Lane got for his services—and that was years dead-on. But there was only one way to get the detective ago. I certainly can’t pay you anything close to that.”
    to go along with the assassination of Tobias Dawson—
    “Don’t worry about the money,” I said. “Just give me one small step at a time. Which meant it was up to me a couple of jars of honey to take back to Jo-Jo, and we’ll to tap-dance Donovan Caine in the direction I wanted call it even.”
    him to go.
    “You’re not even going to charge them?” Donovan
    “Finn?” I asked.
    Caine asked with suspicion. “Why? So you can take their
    “Yeah?”
    land for yourself?”
    “Did you bring your laptop with you?”
    I raised an eyebrow. “And what would I do with a store He sniffed. “Do I ever leave home without it?”
    up here in coal country? I already have a barbecue restauQuestion asked and answered. Sometimes I wondered rant to run. That’s plenty for me. So no, I don’t want their how Finn