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"Fine"

I looked at the cell, thinking that Bruiser fully short-teuy who’d nearly had his ith o I put the phone back to my ear "Thanks" I closed the cell "Okay Money’s not a proble The vaht and handled" I ate so the map and, with the other hand, pointed to three creeks, close to Asheville: Spring Creek, Big Laurel Creek, and Bushy Creek "This is the farthest east the grindy marks have been seen, and there see Mountain"

"There et the traffic, even in the touron season," a river guide said frouide with the silver stud in his tongue At ave him a small smile I laid my cell on the table, the fancy one paid for by Leo, the one with all the bells and whistles, including a"Here’s where I was this afternoon" I pointed to the GPS coordinates "Is this close to any of these creeks?"

Dave took over, aligning my coordinates with the ones on the map "That’s a feeder creek not far fro Laurel Creek," he said, his da over the screams of the tourists’ children

"So, here, here, and here"--I pointed to the places on the North Carolina side of the e--"he’s marked several dozen ti distance of the kill-site of last night’s attack So maybe the weres have a hidey-hole somewhere in this area too"

"There’s hundreds of rental and ca places, and thousands of empty, unused places where someone could squat for the summer," Mike said, "and they’d never be noticed"

"M rease between bites I tilted nized the street where Molly lived She was at the top of a rindy-marked feeder creeks All the blood left ers "Crap," I whispered Two of the se where my best friend, her husband, and kids lived

Beast woke up and rolled to her feet in ht, hunching as if preparing to leap

Two of Molly’s sisters lived just down the ie’s school wasn’t far away either I stood up and turned the ht by ht I’d be staying in New Orleans for a while If the grindy was hunting wolves, then the wolves were hunting odchild, answered "Hey, Aunt Jane You chasing the big doggies?"

The feeling of cold spread through ies?"

Mike and Dave stopped midmotion and focused on me

"Yep Two of ’em They standed up on two feets and looked in ue out at theht Were’s had gotten through the wards on her house, and Angie had used her gift to chase them off, both of which were bad Crap Crap, crap, crap! In so ie wasn’t supposed to be able to draw on her witch gift until puberty, but the little girl had the witch gene froift had coift down, she was scary strong She knew things she shouldn’t far too often, as if the gift was searching out ways to express itself and had found an opening in prescience and in knoas happening to the people she loved But when the wolves got close, she used the gift to protect herself and her faie, let me talk to your mother, okay?"

"Okeydokey Mama!" she screa-Cat, what’s up?" Mol said a ie," I said I heard the click, though Angelina had ways of knoas going on other than eavesdropping I sed, feeling s at her ?"