She looked Dmitri right in the eye and tossed her loose brown hair back over her bared shoulder.“The Pallid Mask!” cried Leon’s woman as she plu...ged the knife down into her own guts. Magda gasped in surprise as a spray of blood played over her from the jerking body, and then gushed in torrents when Leon pulled the woman’s head back and drew a razor swiftly across her bared throat. He held the victim in his strong arms until her spasms ended and the blood stopped spurting; then flung the limp. And she was thrilled to see the lean, muscular, blonde, tan young stud whom she had been obsessed with every since their encounters a few weeks ago.They were all on a 5-hour direct flight to Miami, and during the first couple hours, Ryan sat in a group of seats that were situated around a small conference table, where he let Paul and the others catch him up on details and decisions, as well as the next two days’ agenda. He liked knowing how well things were going for his dad’s company, and he. What the?”Sheets of sand were sliding, gathering in one spot to their front. Ben stood again, put pushed the Colonel back down.“We got this, sir. Stay there.” He ordered.Adam and Ben stepped shoulder to shoulder with Veronyka, hands hovering near weapons as more and more sand flowed uphill until the mound was as high as their chests. Slowly it reformed, taking on a familiar shape, until finally the most archetypical, horn-studded, fiercely predatory dragon’s head appeared. It rose up, floating. " She had studied and learned every spell that was in the book. She was now proficient in almost every one. But which one would serve the purpose that she now so desperately had.Rubbing his brow, she felt him slipping further away from her. She had to get him back somehow. That was it! She would enter his mind and call the essence of the man to return and take control. Placing her fingertips on his temples and bringing her thumbs together at the bridge of his nose, she began to let her mind.