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"You have to tell me how you do that someday--knoho’s here and who’s not" When I didn’t rise to the bait, he said, "He ca like shah me Bliss She had been injured while under my protection, attacked by a va off after the culprit while the victim still needed care I was an idiot "How is she? And how are you?"

He gestured me toward Katie’s office "Better now Bliss has had a hard ti, and with Katie on holiday"

Holiday? Is that what they’re calling it? "And you called Leo"

"No Leo caht her ho up to the Mojo when the attack took place"

Leo probably sawwith Beast speed Combined with the taste he took when he healed my arm, he should have knohat I was, and he hadn’t Of course I no less about what I was A skinwalker? Accidental practitioner of blacka pent breath, part exhaustion, partaround the office "It looks new" I re the liver-eater had attacked Katie There had been a fair amount of blood Not as ot digested, but enough I s cleansers on the air An air filter hu one

Troll flipped a liured he did, living in a whorehouse with a va irls?"

"Fine A couple were patched up at the hospital after the attack, and Leo fed theht as rain, now"

"And Miz A?" In an overlay of snapshot ies, I remembered the blood and the extent of the housekeeper’s wounds She had lost a lot of blood and a good portion of deltoid and other upper ared behind his eyes, a flitting of reconsideration "She’s better Still with us" It didn’t smell like a lie, but the little telltale wrinkles around Troll’s eyes suggested that he wasn’t telling the complete truth either

Better? Still with us? Had she been close to death? Drained enough to be turned? Was Miz A chained in the base machine? I alht the flavor of unfamiliar vamp Close

I whirled Saw a blur of va behind its knee Twisted Punched withthe cross I struck it Knocked it off balance Rode it down Trace of scorched vaht it down An inch fros were out There was fresh blood on her o The little blonde with blue eyes I pulled a stake A hand grippedLeo

"Not her, little vae"

Bruiser,faster than a human, knelt at the vamp’s head and pushed my cross away He slid his hands under the vamp’s shoulders and pulled Insideas Bruiser rehter-in-law Leo was outdrinkingwith his son’s fiancée Now that was just sick

Thenhad the va her Could a male liver-eater take a female form? I couldn’t take aa lot of impossibilities