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boots, her lips curving into a mirthless smile. “Why don’t you pick on someone your own size?”
    The demon leapt at her. She struck out at him, jumping to the side, barely avoiding his blade like claws. He stalked around her and she slowly turned, keeping him in view. He threw himself at her again, screeching when he missed her. But she didn’t. Her blade slid along his flesh and dark liquid spilled over the grey of his skin. He howled and launched himself at her again.
    “Is that the best you can do?” She couldn’t resist taunting him. “It sucks when your prey fights back, doesn’t it?” She spared a quick glance for the body lying on the ground, unmoving. She hoped she hadn’t been too late to save the woman.
    “Prey.” The demon spat the word out. “Prey is human. You are more demon than me.” He leapt at the nearby building and, digging claws into the wall, scurried up the side.
    Cassidy swore as she watched him flee, then spun when she heard a noise behind her. “Gabe.” She said his name like it was a swear word.
    He grinned at her. “Hello, bad influence. Nice to see you missed me. I like what you’ve done with your hair.”
    She ignored the compliment. “How’d you find me?”
    “Do you really need to ask, demon girl?” He gestured towards her wrist. “You might as well have taken out a billboard sign saying demon tainted here. I’m surprised a heap of demons haven’t headed this way to check out what’s going on.”
    “What are you doing here?” She looked behind him. “Alone. Without your babysitter.”
    Gabe’s grin faded. “He’s a year younger than me. Besides I’m too old to need a babysitter.”
    “How old are you?”
    “Twenty-one.”
    “You never said why you’re here.”
    “You seemed more concerned about my cousin’s location than wanting an answer.” He held up a hand when she glared at him. “Alright. No need to get upset. I don’t spend all my time hunting demons. I was at a nightclub.”
    “A nightclub.” She knew she sounded sceptical, but that didn’t sound like something a hunter did. Not from what she’d read in Patrick’s book.
    “I’d offer to buy you a drink but they’re afraid I’ll escape if they give me more than a few dollars at a time.”
    “Escape from what?”
    “Escape to.”
    “Escape to what, then.”
    “To bad influences.” He grinned, taking a step towards her. “But it looks like one found me instead. So bad influence, what happened to your pet demon?”
    Cassidy shrugged as she returned her daggers to her boots. It felt odd holding onto them when she wasn’t fighting. “Don’t know and don’t care.” She looked around, flaring the demon blood as she did. She felt a tug in one direction. There were still more demons in her city. “I was going to ring one of you in the morning.”
    “What for?”
    “I want to get rid of demons, not let them escape. How can I do that?”
    “You can never get rid of them permanently, just send them to hell. But they’re stuck there until they’re called by name or they’re first to answer the call of a human looking for any demon.”
    “Is this going to be one of those conversations that take forever? I’ve got things to do.” She looked back in the direction she needed to head in next. She’d have to get her motorbike first. The demon wasn’t within walking distance.
    “Like what?” Gabe stepped past her with a frown. “Is that a body?”
    Cassidy swore. “I forgot about her.” She spun and hurried to the still limp body to stand and stare down at her. She couldn’t bring herself to check the pulse. What if she was dead? An image of her father, knife in his chest, flashed through her mind.
    Gabe reached her side and crouched beside the woman, his fingers going to her neck. “She’s alive.” He rose to his feet. “Come on. The sooner we get away from here the sooner we can get someone to rescue her.”
    “We’re just going to leave her here?”
    Gabe reached for