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is he here?”
    Sin cursed as he realized he’d just been played by both of them. The handmaiden forgotten, he went for Artemis, but before he could reach her, the handmaiden somehow appeared before him.
    How the hell had she gotten out of the net? He knew firsthand that it didn’t give that easily. But that wasn’t here or there.
    What mattered was getting his hands on Artemis.
    â€œCalm down,” Kat said, cradling her arm.
    He shook his head. “Move out of my way, girl. I won’t be kept from what I want.”
    Artemis rolled her eyes. “And what do you want? Your mewling powers back?”
    He lunged at her, but Kat caught him about the waist and slung him to the ground with a strength he’d never imagined a woman could have—especially considering the fact that she had a broken arm.
    She landed on top of him.
    Pushing her away, he growled, “I don’t want to hurt you, but it doesn’t mean I won’t.”
    Kat glared at him. “Ditto.”
    He tried to move past her, but the woman was like Velcro. Kat attached herself to his body and kept him from reaching Artemis.
    Artemis scoffed at their struggle. “Get out of the way, Katra, so I can zap him.”
    Sin paused as he finally calmed enough to realize something highly significant. He looked back and forth between Katra and Artemis.
    And as he did so, he knew exactly how to get the upper hand back.
    He pulled the long, ornate dagger out of its sheath in his boot before he grabbed Katra and held the blade to her throat. He cut a gimlet glare at Artemis. “Give me my powers back, Artemis, or I’ll take your daughter’s life.”

CHAPTER FOUR
    Kat cringed as Sin spoke a truth that only the bravest of souls would even dare whisper. And never within Artemis’s hearing range.
    Kat leaned back against him, away from the knife. “Damn, boy, you have an unholy gift for pissing off people.” As was evidenced by Artemis’s shriek of outrage. “Why don’t you tell her that dress makes her look fat while you’re at it?”
    He answered by pressing the blade closer to Kat’s throat. “I’m not playing, Artemis.”
    Artemis’s face turned to stone. “And neither am I.”
    Before Kat could even blink, the dagger left her throat. She was pulled from Sin’s arms by an unseen force an instant before the knife was ripped from his hand and plunged into his chest, three times. On the third time, it was left buried to the hilt where it slowly rotated in his chest.
    Sin cursed foully before he jerked it out.
    Kat held her hand up toward Artemis, trying to defuse the situation. “Matisera—”
    â€œStay out of this, Katra. Go home.”
    By the tone of Artemis’s voice, Kat knew she should obey. But she couldn’t stand by and let Sin die if what he’d said about the gallu was true. They couldn’t be left without someone who knew how to fight them.
    Artemis stalked toward him. “It’s time I finish what we started.”
    Sin pushed himself up from the floor and ran at Artemis, but he didn’t come close before he was slammed into a far wall. He growled, then slung his arm out.
    Artemis went flying.
    Kat took a step toward her mother to protect her. But before Kat could take two, Artemis’s voice rang out. “Deimos!”
    Kat came to a halt at the same time a large, fierce man appeared by Artemis’s side. Dressed all in black, Deimos had short jet-black hair that was streaked with wide white stripes—a much different hairstyle than he’d had the last time they met. He was terrifying in appearance, especially with the tattoo that started out as a light eyeliner around his electric blue eyes and then zigzagged from his tear ducts down his cheeks to his neck. Beautiful and deadly, he stood before them with his legs braced wide apart, his head tilted low like a predator and his arms held at his sides,