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Aphrodite shrugged. "Doesn't mean shit to me." Stevie Rae sighed. "You know, you're lucky you turned into a human and not a wooden boy, 'cause with all the lying you're doin', your nose would be like a mile long." Aphrodite shook her head in disgust. "Again with the bad G-rated movie analogy. I don't know why I couldn't have just died and gone to hell. At least I wouldn't be bombarded with Disney there." "Would you just tell me what the hell's going on?" I said. "Better explain it to her. She's almost cussing," Aphrodite said snidely. "You're so hateful. I should have eaten you when I was dead," Stevie Rae said. "You should have eaten your countrified mom when you were dead," Aphrodite said, bowing up like she thought she was black. "No wonder Zoey needs a new BFF. You're totally a Pollyanna pain in the ass." "Zoey does not need a new BFF!" Stevie Rae yelled, turning on Aphrodite and taking a step toward her. For an instant, I thought I saw her blue eyes start to flash the ugly red that illuminated them when she was undead and out of control. Feeling like my head was going to explode, I stepped between them. "Aphrodite, stop messing with Stevie Rae!" "Then you better check your friend." Aphrodite walked to the mirror that was over my sink, grabbed a Kleenex, and started to wipe what was left of the smeared crescent from her forehead. I noticed that for all her nonchalant tone, her hands were shaking. I turned back to Stevie Rae, whose eyes were once again a familiar blue. "Sorry, Z," she said, smiling like a guilty kid. "I guess two days with Aphrodite has gotten on my nerves." Aphrodite snorted and I looked over at her. "Just don't start again," I said. "Fine, whatever." Our eyes met in the mirror, and I was almost sure I saw fear in Aphrodite's gaze. Then she went back to work fixing her face. Feeling utterly confused, I tried to pick up where the conversation had gotten way weird. "So, what's the deal with you saying Aphrodite isn't normal? And I don't mean her abnormally bad attitude," I hastily added. "Easy-peasy," Stevie Rae said. "Aphrodite still has visions, and visions aren't normal for humans." She gave Aphrodite a so there look. "Go ahead. Tell Zoey." Aphrodite turned from the mirror and sat on the little stool I kept close by. She ignored Stevie Rae and said, "Yeah, I still have my visions. Whoop-tee-fucking-do. The only thing I didn't like about being a fledgling is the only thing I get to keep now that I'm a stupid human again." I looked more closely at Aphrodite, seeing through the I'm all that façade she liked to throw up. She was pale, and there were dark circles beneath the cover-up she had slathered under here yes. Yes, she definitely looked like a girl who had just gone through a bunch of crap, and some of it could be one of her draining, life-changing visions. No wonder she was being such a bitch; I was a moron not to have noticed it before then. "What did you see in the vision?" I asked her. Aphrodite met my gaze with a steady one of her own and for a moment let down the steel wall of arrogance she liked to keep around her like a shield. A terrible, haunted shadow crossed her beautiful face, and her hand shook as she raised it to brush a strand of blond hair behind her ear.
"I saw vampyres slaughtering humans and humans killing vampyres right back. I saw a world filled with violence and hatred and darkness. And in the darkness I saw creatures that were so horrible, I couldn't tell what they were. I—I couldn't even keep looking at them. I saw the end of everything." Aphrodite's voice was as haunted as her face. "Tell her the rest of it," Stevie Rae prompted her when Aphrodite paused, and I was surprised by the sudden gentleness in her voice. "Tell her why all of that was happening." When Aphrodite spoke, I felt her words as if they had been shards of glass she'd smashed into my heart. "I saw all of it happening because you were dead, Zoey. Your death made it happen."
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Page 10 and 11: "Ohmigod, no! I'd never spill anyth
Page 12 and 13: "Oh, don't be such a schoolteacher,
Page 14 and 15: "Stark," Lenobia was saying, obviou
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Page 19 and 20: "Nala will be good," I said, hoping
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Page 23 and 24: CHAPTER FOUR I had barely touched m
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Page 29 and 30: "Well, you died a couple different
Page 31 and 32: "Oh, shit, and Erik. That's when we
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Page 35 and 36: I also remembered the flash of red
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Page 39 and 40: "Can you not use some of your mind
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Page 45 and 46: "You're gonna have issues with my f
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Page 63 and 64: CHAPTER ELEVEN My friends babbled a
Page 65 and 66: "Dokey," said Shaunee. "See ya," Ja
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Page 69 and 70: "Okay, so this Will guy is majorly
Page 71 and 72: "The arrow disappeared. Only tempor
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN Aphrodite reached
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"Yeah, well, maybe she doesn't want
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My heart was beating hard, and my h
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Stop it! I told myself. Plus, Erik
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN I hadn't needed to
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I sighed. We'd have to do something
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allowing you to interact with human
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invoke earth in her dorm room, and
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"Two vampyres have been killed? I h
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her finger and then pointed at Stev
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"Fine," she said. "But when I figur
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"It is a good thing, but Shekinah a
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"I think you might be right," she f
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN "Of course they a
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"Yes. I put in a call to our Board
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"Did you already pay for her?" I as
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Darius volunteered
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"Okay. Yeah. It's a lot like sex."
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he was unnaturally pale and had bru
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"Do you know what happens to the hu
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"I'm not a vampyre and I'm not a Hi
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them onto the scripts for us. When
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almost all the way around my neck.
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"What's going on?" "It's Aphrodite.
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"Fine. But don't blame me when peop
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE "Your grandma's
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e sound asleep. Also I realized I w
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way of honoring the Great Spirit an
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"It means they are powerful psychic
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"The Ghigua called a secret council
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE "It is a warni
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"You managed to skip out on a whole
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"Sadly, I have to agree," Shaunee s
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"When really it was a power crime,"
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Rae." "That's definitely a connecti
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"So, instead of trying to snatch, u
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"I'm going to go find Shekinah and
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Walking down th
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I quickly oriented myself, facing t
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"I don't know!" Neferet's voice bro
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Again I listened
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"No, wait. It's the second. The fir
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I held my breath, thinking I'd mess
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"So, I'm guessing all the rest of y
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Aphrodite snorted. "Not hardly. Gra
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"U-no-le!" Grandma cried. "Carry th
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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT With Grandma w
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"I don't like it." I couldn't sit,
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Dr. Ruffing was continuing to speak
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"What can I do?" I glanced at Grand
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I could see in her eyes that she di
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"Yes, which appears to be happening
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CHAPTER THIRTY I didn't want to wai
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"Okay, before I get sick and perhap
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CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE It seemed like t
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The words of the poem caught me, ca
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moment it lit, we were surrounded i
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myself, but Zoey, Damien, Shaunee,
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"Stark!" I meant to call his name l
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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE The ground ben
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It was at that moment that I took t
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at me, they were seeing nothing but
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would, for the first time in a long
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