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“We’re dead,” Kira kept saying. “We’re so, so dead.”
“Calm down,” I said, placing a hand over her mouth. You’re going to get us caught if you don’t shut up.
“You don’t get it,” she said. “That’s the Butcher of Crestfall, the Angel of Death and the King of the Devils. If Carlos is the most dangerous man in this town, then Gabriel is a close second. He’s Carlos’s beta.”
My blood turned cold as I turned back to face him. Gabriel was a tall and dark man, with an air of confidence about him and a crisp black suit that hugged his body in all the right places. He moved with an almost predatory grace, and his eyes were dark and mysterious as he reached out and took Selene’s hand, then dropped a soft and smouldering kiss on her knuckles.
“What are they saying?” I asked.
Kira closed her
