CHAPTER 6
I COULDN’T HELP the spurt of laughter that escaped. The ninja thought someone wanted to kill me? Yes, I’d kind of got that part.
“He nearly succeeded. One of his bullets hit my ear.”
Without thinking, I reached up to touch it. A delicate scab had formed on the top edge. The medic who treated me had tried his best to clean the dried blood off my face, but my hair was crispy with the remnants.
“It’s just a graze.”
Anger fizzed through me. How could the Prince of freaking Darkness act so casual about it?
“Well, maybe in your world it’s just a graze. But in my world, it represents a much bigger problem.”
“I understand that. Your problem just killed one of my men and injured another.”
I slumped back in the chair, the fight in me evaporating. “Kevin didn’t make it?”
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