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Bitten in Two

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by Jennifer Rardin


  He grimaced. “I’m a little busy right now.”

  “Either you talk to the nice lady or I punch your lights out.” His eyes went to Raoul, so I added, “Oh, don’t look to him for help. He’s like the UN. He’ll bitch and whine about my behavior, but he’ll sit back and let me do the dirty work because, in the end, he knows I’m the one who’s gonna save the world.”

  Raoul growled, “That was a low blow.”

  I shrugged. “I’m sorry. I know the Eminent ties your hands a lot. I just tend to get pissy when people try to kill the guy I love.” I looked up at him. “But I do appreciate you coming when you did. Great timing, as usual.”

  I shoved the phone toward Aaron. “The threat still stands, mainly because I’m highly ticked off and I wanna hit something. It’d be so great if you gave me an excuse.”

  Aaron took the phone, staring at me suspiciously as he said, “Hello? Yes. No.” He listened for a while before his face puckered. But he managed to master the emotion Cassandra had pulled out of him before he said another word. Which was “Thanks.”

  He handed the phone back to me. “Well?” I asked the woman on the other end who deserved a respectful ear, both because she’d survived nearly a thousand years on this earth, and because she’d chosen to spend the next fifty or so with my brother.

  Cassandra took a deep breath. “I can’t be sure without touching the boy, but I consulted the tarot while he and I were speaking. It points to the same signs the Enkyklios has been showing me. I have to do more research. But it would be best if I could touch him—”

  “What are you trying to tell me?”

  “Whatever you do, don’t hurt him,” she said, unknowingly echoing Raoul’s advice. “I believe that, in another life, he was Vayl’s son.”

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Thanks so much to my agent, Laurie McLean, whose unfailing enthusiasm keeps me feeling optimistic. Orbit is a fab publisher, so I must thank all of my partners there, who include my editor, Devi Pillai, publicity geniuses Alex Lencicki and Jack Womack, and my copy editor, Penina Lopez. Love and gigantic hugs to my readers, Hope Dennis and Katie Rardin. Thanks to Roxanne Montgomery Trahan for introducing me to Jimmy Buffet’s great song “Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On.” Anouk Zijlma was a wonderful source of information about Marrakech, so thanks to you, dear lady. I deeply appreciate your help! And to Jazfans everywhere—you rock!

  Table of Contents

  FRONT COVER IMAGE

  WELCOME

  DEDICATION

  EXTRAS

  MEET THE AUTHOR

  A PREVIEW OF THE DEADLIEST BITE

  CHAPTER ONE

  CHAPTER TWO

  CHAPTER THREE

  CHAPTER FOUR

  CHAPTER FIVE

  CHAPTER SIX

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  CHAPTER NINE

  CHAPTER TEN

  CHAPTER ELEVEN

  CHAPTER TWELVE

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN

  CHAPTER SIXTEEN

  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

  CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

  CHAPTER NINETEEN

  CHAPTER TWENTY

  CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

  CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

  CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

  CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

  CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

  CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

  CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

  CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

  CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

  CHAPTER THIRTY

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  JAZ PARKS NOVELS

  PRAISE FOR THE JAZ PARKS SERIES

  COPYRIGHT

  JAZ PARKS NOVELS

  Once Bitten, Twice Shy

  Another One Bites the Dust

  Biting the Bullet

  Bitten to Death

  One More Bite

  Bite Marks

  Bitten in Two

  The Deadliest Bite

  Praise for the Jaz Parks series

  “If you’re in the mood for fast-paced supernatural adventure, the Jaz Parks series never fails to deliver.”

  —sfsite.com on Bitten to Death

  Bitten in Two

  A JAZ PARKS NOVEL

  Jennifer Rardin

  www.orbitbooks.net

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2010 by Jennifer Rardin

  Excerpt from The Deadliest Bite copyright © 2010 by Jennifer Rardin

  All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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  First eBook Edition: November 2010

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  The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  ISBN: 978-0-316-12173-6

 

 

 


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