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her hand and tugged her forward. “The last thing we want is to be in every second police report. Things like that start to ring alarm bells.”
    Cassidy allowed him to lead her away from the area. He dropped her hand once they reached a street sign and pulled his phone out to send a text message. “Who’d you let know?”
    “Family. They’ll make sure the message gets to the appropriate person. So, where to next?”
    “You’re not going anywhere with me. I hunt alone.” She pressed a hand against his chest when he tried to come closer.
    “Alone, huh? Fine. I’ll stand in the shadows and watch.”
    “You weren’t invited.”
    Gabe grinned. “If I waited for you to invite me I’d go grey.” He looked around. “So where is it?”
    Cassidy shook her head, striding in the direction of her motorbike. She glared at Gabe when he fell into step with her. “Don’t you understand the word no?”
    “Nope.” His grin faded. “I want to see how you hunt. You’re so far from sainthood it should be impossible. At least from what I know.”
    She reached her motorbike and turned to look at him. “And why’s that any of your business?”
    “Because I love to hunt demons. It’s the rest of it I have trouble with.”
    “The rest of what?”
    Gabe’s lips twisted into a smile. “Let’s just say I’d never attain sainthood.”
    “Bad influences?”
    Gabe laughed. “I think the problem is that I’m the bad influence.” He sobered. “This is meant to be my last chance to be a hunter. I don’t think I’m going to pass the exam.”
    Cassidy’s eyes narrowed. “I thought there was no exam.”
    “Not officially. But you might as well say we’re being tested all the time. If they handed out grades I don’t think they’d be able to find one low enough for me.”
    Cassidy picked up her helmet. “I haven’t got a spare one.”
    Gabe shrugged. “So don’t stack it and I won’t miss having one.”
    She studied his face. His gaze was so intense she wondered if he could see in the dark as clearly as she could. She nodded and swung her leg over the motorbike. “Get on then.” She waited until he was behind her, his hands lightly resting on her hips, his legs alongside hers.
    “Thanks.”
    “Don’t thank me yet. We haven’t reached our destination.”
    Gabe laughed. “Then what are we waiting for?”
    Cassidy took off faster than she normally would and grinned as he tightened his grip. It took nearly a quarter of an hour before they were close to the next demon. She parked her motorbike and they both hopped off. Spotting the demon ahead of them, strolling along the road, she drew her daggers.
    Gabe put a hand on her arm. “No. It hasn’t done anything yet.”
    “It’s a demon.”
    Gabe sighed. “Until we have proof a demon means harm we can’t act against it.”
    Energy flared through her as she spun to face Gabe. “What sort of rubbish is that?”

Chapter Eleven
    Gabe didn’t get a chance to reply. At the flare of demon energy, the demon’s wings snapped out and he flew at them, claws extended. Gabe laughed as Cassidy blocked, spinning away from him to put space between them. “Now we have proof.”
    “About bloody time,” Cassidy muttered. She warily watched the demon who hovered just out of reach. “Come down here and fight me.”
    “What are you?” the demon demanded.
    Gabe gestured towards the weapons she held. “Think I can have one of them daggers?”
    Ignoring the demon’s question, Cassidy threw one towards him. “What do we do now?”
    Gabe caught the dagger and tipped some of the contents from a vial of liquid over it. He capped the vial and called out, “Here.” When Cassidy nodded he threw the vial. “Tip some of that onto your blade.”
    She did as he suggested. “What is it?”
    “Holy water. They love fire and could bath in it. This feels to them what fire feels to us.”
    “Great, now we’ve just got to get the creature to come closer.” Which looked like it might