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Nerthus

As soon as we start to drive into the neighborhood where Danny lives, I get a horrible feeling. Scooting closer to Danny in the backseats, I loop my arm around his, leaning my head against his shoulder. “Maybe it was a bad idea,” I murmur, but he shakes his head.

“It’s going to be great. You’ll see,” he says elatedly.

I would like to believe it. But even though Aleksei is stoically driving the car as if we were going to buy daisies, Giulio’s leg that keeps jumping up and down is freaking the shit out of me. “You can all prepare yourself for him killing us all.”

He turns around to us in the backseats as Aleksei chuckles, “And you princess will pay for your survival dearly.”

“Stop being scared rabbit,” Aleksei stops the black SUV right in front of a bustling building. The beats are so loud that they were already audible as we turned into the street.

My heart beats into my throat as we get out, Giulio’s words resounding over and over in my head. The street as well as the illu