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not very popular.”
    “I thought he was Hungarian.”
    “He is. You know what I mean.”
    “Well, lemme call Jason, see if he’s okay with us taking the trip next weekend instead.
    ’Scuse me for a second.” Alex grinned. “He gets kinda mushy on the phone.” He stepped
    away to a corner of the locker area where no one was sitting, and Tommy watched as he
    called his boyfriend Jason.
    Tommy was happy for his best buddy. A few months before, the demon Dakar had
    forcibly recruited Alex along with hundreds of other men and women to strengthen his
    demon army in his bid to take control away from their Kardis, the ruler of the underworld.
    Alex and all the other humans had almost been killed, but vampires had saved the day, and the upshot had been that Alex had met Jason who had also been ‘recruited’. They’d been seeing one another regularly since then, and it looked like their romance was going well.
    Alex was smiling ruefully as he walked back over to where Tommy waited. “He said
    okay, but only ‘cause it’s you. He knows how tight we are.”
    “Thanks, Alex.” Tommy gave him a quick hug. “Tell Jason I love him. Well…” He
    winked at Alex. “I’ll tell him when I see him next.”
    “Hey, ‘nuff o’ that!”
    “Just kidding. Now I just have to get the chief to agree.”
    “He’ll agree. You’re his boy wonder!”
    Tommy smiled ruefully. The chief might, but Tommy wondered if Andrew would still
    consider him his ‘boy wonder’ when he told him he was joining him in Iraq.
    Oh, the air is gonna be blue, but I’m not backing down—not this time!
     
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Chapter Four
    The Lady Andorra drew herself up to her full height of five-foot-four and glared up at
    the man who towered over her, meeting his dark eyes with a fierce stare of her own. Though diminutive in stature, Andorra knew she still managed to exude an intimidating persona even while restrained and faced with a lethal enemy.
    “Where is Tony, my companion?” she demanded in fluent Arabic. “What have you
    done with him?”
    “You will not demand information from me,” the man who had identified himself
    earlier only as Azid snarled at her. “Nor will you find me or my men threatened by your
    arrogant ways. We know what you are, and we know what daylight can do to you. Answer
    the questions I shall put to you again, or this time you will hear the screams of your
    companion as he has hot coals applied to his naked flesh.”
    Andorra strained against the silver chains that bound her to the wall of her cell—chains that weakened her and took away her vampire powers. Unbound, she could destroy this man in an instant and his cohorts with him, but unless by some miracle she was freed, she had no way of overcoming her captors and rescuing Tony from whatever hell these men had planned for him.
    “Marcus!” Her silent pleas had so far gone unanswered and Andorra knew it had to be because of her weakened state. If Marcus had heard her he would have replied in kind and most likely would be on his way to help get her out of this mess.
    She had been betrayed. Someone who knew of her mission had informed the terrorist
    group that now held her and Tony prisoner. They had also been informed of her powers for they had got to Tony first, using him as bait to lure her to their headquarters. Tony was human, and although made stronger than many men by Andorra’s vampire blood, even he was no match for the five thugs sent against him.
    Despite the fact that Tony was attacked in broad daylight and in front of several
    witnesses, no one came to his aid or alerted the police. Violence was an all too common
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    find Tony, and that if she wanted to see him alive, she