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"It’s all right" She slowly placed the phone back on the bed "I’ll go with you"

"We will see to it that Agent Hutchins is returned to his family," Robin said "You have my word"

"I’ll do whatever you want," she said "But when this is over and Ray is safe, I’ll see to it that you and the contessa go to jail for the rest of your lives"

He gave her an odd look "You cannot imprison a prisoner, love"

Robin escorted her downstairs, where Will aiting with the car He refused to let her use the car phone to call her parents or anyone else Although Chris had no intention of endangering Hutch’s life by doing soht try to somehow tip off the bureau as to their situation There were ients were taken hostage, and while there were no guarantees, Chris knew their best chance of survival ith the bureau’s hostage negotiators handling the contessa

Robin never let her out of his sight, however, holding her hand as they walked into the airport and putting his arate It wasn’t until he whisked her onto the private jet that she realized she wasn’t going to be able to pass a ers

"I don’t have a passport," she said, feeling a little desperate as he guided her down the aisle and to a pair of seats in the center of the jet "They won’t let h customs without it"

"We don’t need passports, love" As the jet taxied down the runway, he buckled her seat belt over her "You look exhausted You should try to sleep We will need to move quickly once we reach Roht attendant’s uniform came back, and Robin left her and went to speak with hi the lights of Atlanta shrink, thousands of e this, really leaving the country with alike a vampire

What did he call himself? Vrykolakas Darkyn She had never heard of an RPG by either na onto the market She wondered what her department chief would have to say when she finally filed her report That full grown adults could delude thea made to play her own part in it

When Robin came and sat down beside her, she asked, "Do you own this plane, or did you charter it?"

"I own this and two others"

If he had that much ht, her heart sinking "I need e, just in case we don’t make it past customs"

He put his hand over hers "We will, love"

Chris watched his fingers rest against the spaces between hers She wanted to slap hio Whoever he hatever he was--he et him out of her head and her heart before he took them over completely

He can’ton other people, it doesn’t work on me If it did, I would do whatever he wants, just like them But if Rob couldn’t affect her, then why couldn’t she move her hand out from under his?

The male attendant returned with a tray of drinks Robin took the glass of dark red wine from the tray and tried to hand her the one filled with a, thank you"

"It is only ginger ale" When she still wouldn’t take it fro a little "You see? No poison"

Although she didn’t want anything froet dehydrated on top of everything else would be idiotic Reluctantly she took the glass and drank The cold soft drink felt good going down her dry throat, and gave her so his beautiful eyes It wasn’t until she’d finished the soda that she felt her eyelids grow heavy and her hands go nu her

He took the glass frorip "Sweet dreams, ed the blood fro abdoether--too slowly, but better than not at all--before she draped the Kyn warrior’s lower body

"Before you take him into recovery, swap out that unit of blood for plasma," she told Geoffrey’s stable ery "And I want hiht hours"

The big man frowned "My lady, he needs blood"