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“Great idea,” Teo piped up. “All for it.”

“Shut up, Teo,” Gina said.

He didn’t. “I’m a better choice. You think there’s a lot of info in that head, you oughta see mine.”

“No.” Gina kept her gaze on the Nahual’s face. “He isn’t going to let me or Jase go just because he takes you.”

The monster’s lips curved. “You know me too well.”

“I’m starting to. Even if he jumps ship,” Gina waved between Jase and Matt, “he’ll still need me, or someone else, to sacrifice themselves so he can bond, or whatever the hell he needs to do, with a body.”

The Nahual spread Jase’s hands. “You got me.”

“The sacrifice has to be willing, Gina. Don’t be.”

“If you won’t give willingly,” the Nahual said, “I’ll just take. You’ll still grow a tail beneath the moon forever. Then I’ll mow through everyone at the house until I find someone who’ll give in. I’m sure the kid, or maybe his dad, even the woman who birthed this body would be happy to give his or her life for someone they love.”

Derek. Tim. Fanny. Isaac. Melda. People Gina loved and people who trusted and depended on her. She couldn’t let them die and/or become a werewolf because she didn’t have the guts to give in.

However …

Gina glanced at the sky where the sun blazed only halfway up the eastern horizon. There was still a good long time until dusk. Maybe Edward would arrive, find them, free Jase, then kill that thing and they’d all live happily ever after.

Hey, it could happen. There were werewolves running around, and an Aztec sorcerer had possessed her best friend. In Gina’s opinion, reality was up for grabs.

“I need to think,” Gina murmured.

“And here I figured that the instant I threatened lover boy you’d be signing right up.”

“You can’t turn me until nightfall anyway. What’s the rush?”

The Nahual lifted Jase’s face to the sun. “I crave the moon,” he agreed. “Only beneath it can I increase my army.”

“Bummer for you,” Teo said. “You’d think an unkillable sorcerer would have more control over the environment.”

“But I do,” the Nahual whispered.

His gaze swept the ground; then he snatched up a sharp-edged rock and grabbed Gina’s arm.

“Hey!” She tried to pull away, but he slashed her palm, then clapped his own to the blood that flowed.

When he released her, she held her stinging hand to her chest. However, the wound was the least of her worries as the Nahual smeared her blood over his palms, then lifted them in glistening supplication t

o the heavens.

He shouted in gibberish as the earth began to shake. The sun dimmed, swirled, then shifted from yellow to white.

Gina glanced at Teo. “Nice one,” she said.

And the cerulean sky went black.

Gina recalled the man-wolf figure on the wall of the cavern lifting its arms to a sky that contained two circles—one gold, one silver—and understood.

The bastard could bring the moon.

Okay, new plan. The Nahual was going to make her a werewolf, and there was nothing she could do about it but agree.

Fine. To save Teo she would do anything. Maybe once she was one of them she could figure out how to end the creature. She didn’t believe there wasn’t a way. The world didn’t work like that. Nothing was unkillable. Everything died eventually. Besides, what choice did she have?

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