He looked exactly as he did now, but he spoke in Latin when he bragged and told the losers to pay up. Sitting on the back of the scooter, Helena was s...ruggling to work up her courage. Goddammit, this was humiliating. She tugged on his sleeve. Xavier pulled over and turned to her. She shied away, unable to believe she was about to ask something from him. The look on her face was the one she had worn all day when he placed that vibrating hex on her panties.“Can… can we go to St. Peter’s Basilica?. I’ve seen the videos of him beheading missionaries.” Helena stared grimly at the screen.“If the Demon wants her familiar back, she will come alone to the GPS co-ordinates at the end of this video at noon tomorrow. If she does not show up or if there are any tricks...” Igazi pulled out a long knife and held it to Maria’s throat as she slept on. “A sleeping woman may not scream when you kill her, but that will not make her any less dead. The only question is if I give her to my men before or. My boss Jerome Armand was taking a big chance by letting me be on the dream team. If I failed, it would mean the end of my career at the firm and he’d be deeply embarrassed. I had to succeed. Sometimes, it really sucks to be me. I was handling the case of a lifetime and I was having some trouble at home. Joanna was changing before my eyes and I didn’t know why. My sweet, good-natured and patient wife was restless. And she wouldn’t talk about it. I tried to mend things by taking her out to. I have something to talk over with you.’ Danny sat down. He started to say, ‘I’m sorry that I…’ ‘No need to apologize, Danny,’ Louise said gently. ‘We do have to get a few things straight, though.’ ‘Okay.’ Louise took a deep breath, and said, ‘First of all, what we did was very pleasurable to me, and I hope it was for you, too. But I don’t think that your mom appreciated it very much. You see, she thinks I took advantage of you.’ ‘But that’s not really true, and I told her that! Damn! I’m.