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"You can’t tell whose saliva that is?" Nic flicked a finger toward the microscope

"Only if I’d seen it before and I had my notes But really, what are the odds that one of those I’ve examined has turned up here?"

"Pretty dareed

Sure, the olves in the basement could be free, but they’d also been locked up when the disappearances began

"Did the doctor have a bite mark?" I asked

"No Which leadsof a witchie wolf involves the bite of a olf in human form," Nic said "How about you?"

I contemplated the body, which was still quite visible "I’ that, too"

"We still don’t knohy"

"No"

"Maybe Lydia will find a book, and it will explain everything"

"Including how to get rid of them"

"Wouldn’t that be nice?"

"M at the doctor "Do you think he was killed because he was on to souy meant to keep his identity a secret, why leave the evidence behind?"

"We interrupted hie and the notebook from the table "Just in case"

"Maybe I should send that stuff to the criencies"

"I don’t think so"

"But - "

"Can you iander at the saliva of a olf in human form?"

"I doubt he’d knohat it was"

"Exactly So what good would showing hihed "And then we’d have FBI all over the place, asking questions"

"Getting eaten by olves they didn’t know about"

"Chaos I see your point"

"We should just handle this on our own as we’ve been doing"

"Right" Nic glanced at the doctor "We’ll need to get so it here isn’t practical"

"Damn," I muttered

"What’s the matter?"

I waved a hand at Dr Watchry "I’m not used to this"

"Death?"

No, that I was used to

"People I’ve justkilled thespread across his face "Happens"

"How do you stand it?"

"By pushing aside useless e on what’s important"

"Important?" My voice rose several levels in pitch and volume "What could be more i the one who killed thenation went out of me like the air out of a popped balloon

"Okay"

Nic smiled "We’ll handle this"

Unspoken was the word together, but I heard it nevertheless

"Let’s find Basil," I said "Tell him about the doctor’s death"

"And ask hiraves I could also use a list of the ive us a clue"

Thoughts like those hy I kept hiaze wandered over the biceps that stretched the seas

We locked the clinic behind us - didn’t need any citizens stu over the body - then headed for the sheriff’s office

The place was still eh the paperwork

"Hey, can you do that?"

"I’ like that is usually what gets you guys in trouble"

He ignored e attitude attractive What didn’t I find attractive about him lately?