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on her.”
    Dominic finally found his voice. “You do this, Sam,” he said; his voice so laced with malice, it didn’t sound like his own. “And know that you will never be able to let your guard down. Not with me. Because I swear to God I will never stop fighting you.” His teeth were bared with a determined sort of wrath. If Sam Hain attempted to take over his body, the Lord of the Dead would have a war of epic proportions on his hands. Dom would not at all give in quietly.
    “Oh, I’ve no doubt,” Sam said. “But never underestimate the strength of a determined god, Maldovan.” He looked Dom in the eyes. “I’m ready for you.” His smile became a dark smirk. “I’ve even made certain my eyes won’t give me away this time.”
    Dominic blinked. Shit , he thought. Contacts . That’s what I feel in my eyes. The son of a bitch put green contacts in them.
    “Now, you’re probably wondering how all of this is going to go down,” Sam said next. The fire on the end of the torch crackled and spit, burning merrily as if it knew it was seconds away from the meal of a lifetime. “I used your phone to put in a call to the police. I gave them our location and told them I was about to set a student on fire.” His cold eyes glinted in the fire light. “They’ll be here any second, armed and ready.”
    Just as he finished saying this, Dom began to make out the sound of sirens. A second later, he saw a light flash through the stalks of corn long across the field. Headlights. They were still very far, but he could tell there were two sets.
    “Ah,” said Sam as he glanced over his shoulder at the approaching vehicles. “Speak of the devils.”
    Dominic prepared himself. As soon as they came close enough and any of the officers got out of their cars, Dom would do his best to yell out, to warn them before they could do anything life-altering.
    But Sam captured his attention again as he slammed the end of the torch’s stick into the ground in front of him, leaving it standing firm between them. He then pulled a roll of duct tape out of the inside pocket of his leather biker jacket and noisily ripped a strip free.
    Dom inhaled sharply, hoping to get even one warning out. He failed. Alec Sheffield wasn’t a weak man and Sam put the strength in his stolen body to quick use. Though Dom struggled as much as he could, with his arms and legs strapped down tight, the only part of his body he could move was his head. It wasn’t long before Sam had the tape over his mouth. He used several pieces, layering them over each other and completely cutting off one of Dom’s airways.
    When he was finished, he dropped the duct tape to the ground and stepped back to admire his handy work.
    “You! Freeze!”
    Dom turned his head, causing the skin to stretch beneath the tape on his face. Across the small field and from between two tall rows of yellow corn stalks, several police officers carrying flashlights stepped into view.
    “It’s show time, axman,” Sam said as he reached out and yanked the torch out of the ground.
    “I said don’t move!” one of the police officers warned. He pulled the gun from his belt and aimed it at Sam. At Alec .
    From behind the duct tape and rope that held him so uselessly in place, Dominic screamed. He yelled and bellowed and tried with all of his might to dislodge the quiet that would surely be Alec’s death sentence. But it did no good.
    Sam turned to look at Dom, eye to eye, through a pivotal moment. “Say goodbye to your pal, Dom.” He lowered the torch toward the ground at Dominic’s booted feet.
    The sound of a gun going off split the night.

 
    Chapter Five
    She’d just started her car back up and headed out onto the road again when she’d received the call. It was from Dominic.
    Since the fourth grade, she’d almost painfully hungered for some kind of contact with the boy that her entire school thought of as a rock god. Dominic Maldovan: Green eyed, raven-haired, incredibly tall, draped