Elemental Assassin 02 - Web of Lies

moment, I enforcer who ran Mab’s security detail and took care of sensed the ruby’s vibrations. The gemstone whispered of any problems the Fire elemental didn’t feel like dealing raw, fiery power. The sound meshed perfectly with the with herself. Slater was one of the tallest giants in atshrieking stone of the mansion. Both made my stomach tendance, if not the tallest. His seven-foot figure loomed clench.
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    As I looked at Mab, I couldn’t help but think about waiters and headed toward the back of the ballroom. The the file Fletcher Lane had left me on the murder of my grand staircase was shaped like a T, and two hallways ran family—and the piece of paper he’d tucked inside with underneath either side of it and connected the ballroom Mab Monroe’s name on it. Again, I wondered why to the other wings of the mansion. I strolled down the Fletcher had written down the Fire elemental’s name. left hallway, peering into the rooms I passed. I couldn’t Had Fletcher concluded that she’d murdered my family?
    very well kill Tobias Dawson on the ballroom floor, so Had he merely suspected her? or had he put her name in I needed to find a more secluded spot I could lure the there for another reason entirely—
    dwarf to before I stabbed him to death.
    “Earth to Gin,” Finn murmured in my ear.
    But the hallway wasn’t as deserted as I’d hoped. I passed I focused on the here and now once more. “How long several couples standing against the walls or inside the have they been standing there talking?”
    interior rooms, just out of sight of the ballroom. Some
    “Not long,” Finn said. “I’d say you have another five or talked softly. others stared into each other’s eyes and ten minutes before Mab and the others drift off.”
    sipped champagne. A few necked. But at least one person
    “All right. Keep an eye on them.”
    in every couple wore a heart-and-arrow rune that marked
    “What are you going to do?”
    him or her as a hooker from Northern Aggression. I stared out at the glittering mass of people. “Find one man wearing the rune necklace grimaced as his someplace quiet to take care of Tobias Dawson, once I vampire paramour sank her fangs deep into his exposed get my hooks into him.”
    throat. Her eager, sucking sounds reminded me of a kitten mewling. Another man, a dwarf, stood upright, his Finn promised to keep watching Tobias Dawson, and we head tucked up underneath the dress and his face buried both hung up. I tucked the cell phone back into the purse in the crotch of a giant woman wearing the rune necklace. Roslyn had given me. It was a tiny thing, but I’d managed I didn’t have to guess what he was doing with his tongue. to stick one of my silverstone knives inside, along with The giant had a decidedly bored look on her face. She the compact and tube of healing ointment Jo-Jo Devercooed false encouragement to the dwarf, even as she exaux had provided a few days ago. I didn’t think Dawson amined her nails as if debating whether or not she needed would go down easily, and I wanted to have some healing a fresh manicure. The giant saw me staring. Her brown supplies on hand in case the dwarf got a couple of shots in eyes landed on the rune necklace around my throat, and on me before he died. I couldn’t exactly sneak out of Mab she shrugged as if to say, What can you do? I returned her Monroe’s party unnoticed if I was bruised and bloody shrug and walked on.
    from head to toe.
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    guests to feel like they were being watched. Having a and knowing whispered in the back of my mind. Here is giant loom over you would give just about anyone per your enemy . formance anxiety.
    Not an unusual thought for a Stone elemental to have I came to a cross corridor and paused. To my left, while in the house of a Fire, or vice versa. opposing elanother set of doors led out onto the terrace. Another ements just didn’t mesh—and neither did their human hallway stretched out in front of me, while another one counterparts. Air against Ice, Fire against Stone. An old, veered right, snaking back underneath the staircase. I predictable story. I’d heard that voice, felt