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we have ever come across!' He had managed to bring himself back up to a kneeling position, leaning heavily on the boulder he had just collided with. His head hurt like a bitch, and the burning pain in his shoulder was getting worse. Well, she has to be some type of magical being. My human body isn’t healing from where her sword caught me, and the burning tells me the sword has been either spelled or poisoned. His vision cleared just enough to see Danielle getting ready to take the kill shot. Damn, and I still don’t understand why she wants me dead. I mean, yeah, I turned down her boss’s business deal last month; the man is as crooked as they come. But the man actually ordered me killed because I refused a business proposition?
    Natasha glanced over to Blain as soon as the sword was in her hand. She saw Danielle bring her sword up, readying to go for the kill shot. Natasha didn’t think, she didn’t have time to. In one huge leap, she landed between Danielle and Blain’s kneeling form. If the look in her eyes were any indication, Natasha had caught the other woman by surprise. Danielle jerked to a stop, her eyes going wide as Natasha brought her sword up to meet hers.
    Taking the momentary advantage she had with her surprise attack, she brought her foot up and kicked Danielle in the gut while their swords were still locked together. The other woman stumbled slightly as she took a step or two backwards, and Natasha wasted no time in giving her another kick, this time sending her sprawling on the ground. Knowing she had no other choice, Natasha quickly swung her sword down and to the side, cleanly decapitating Danielle.
    Natasha stood over the body, breathing heavily. Commotion off to her side snapped her head back up. All of Blain’s guards had suddenly jumped up, as if coming out of a trance. Hmm, maybe she had been a witch of some type, and had cast a spell on them . That would make sense, since it would have been suicide to try to fight both Blain and his guards. As it was, the guards were making short work of rounding up Danielle’s minions.
    “Leave a few of them alive,” she heard Blain order from behind her.
    She turned his way and helped him to stand. “Damn, but whatever she had dipped her sword in burns like a bitch!” he growled as they headed over to one of his guards who was holding a captive.
    “Speak!” Blain demanded. “Tell me why you attacked, why Boragello wants me dead!”
    “Fuck you!” The mammoth of a man spat in Blain’s face. “You might win today, but if Boragello didn’t already want you dead, he damn sure does now that you have killed his girlfriend!” Both Blain and Natasha watched as the man started twitching, an evil grin spreading across his face, even as he began foaming at the mouth. “There are more coming, he won’t stop until you are both dead.” The man’s eyes rolled back into his head as he took his last breath.
    “Don’t touch him,” Blain ordered both Natasha and his guard. “It’s poison, I can smell it. He must have had something in his mouth that he could activate if things went south.
    They both turned as they watched with horrid fascination as all of Boragello’s men succumbed to the same thing. “Well, it was either something already in their mouth, or it might be some kind of spell.” He looked over to Natasha. “I suspect Danielle was some type of witch and used her abilities to cast a spell on the men. As far as I can tell, they are all human, so it could have been a spell to increase their strength. It may also have been laced with succumbing to death by poisoning if she didn’t make it.”
    He turned to walk away from her, but she reached out to grab his arm. “Wait a minute, you couldn’t smell what she was?” He was a dragon shifter. Surely he knew what type of paranormal being she was.
    “No, whatever she was, she managed to cloak her scent very well from me.”
    Just then they began to hear the engine of a car. It was still a bit