“Today’s enemies are tomorrow’s allies, Dae. Hey,
I just crawled out from under one of Xaphan’s genies.
If I’d been with you three nights ago, she would have
smoked me, right?”
He couldn’t argue the fact. “True.”
“So why did Gahiji attack Roxy? Makes no sense,
even if she is one of Aset’s.”
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Dagan played the scene in his mind. “He went for
her.Not just an Asetian, but her, Roxy Tam. Like he
had a more personal reason.”
“Then all we gotta do is find that reason.”
Dagan’s thoughts had already started to wander that
path. Everyone who’d shown up at Roxy’s three nights
ago had been interested in Marin, the Setnakhts and
Dana.
All of whom seemed to be connected to Lokan’s
death.
What if somehow Gahiji’s attempt to harvest Roxy’s
heart was linked to Lokan’s death? A stretch, but
Gahiji’s behavior had been out of character. He was
usually even as a sheet of glass. Taking the harvest
when both Alastor and Dagan outranked him wasn’t
something he would normally do.
So why try for Roxy’s heart?
He glanced at the bathroom door, drummed his fingers on the table, thought about his own peculiar preoccupation with Roxy Tam and said, “Hey, Mal—”
He almost stopped there, almost didn’t ask, then he
pushed himself to get it out there, figuring Mal, the
consummate ladies’ man, might actually be able to
