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"Lucy" - she stopped her friend in the corridor near Hawke’s office - "you seen tall, dark, and silent?"

"Which one?" the other woames with Andrew and some others"

Bren felt her face pale "What?"

"Don’t worry," Lucy called out as she headed off "He’s a big boy"

But Dreas bloodthirsty, especially with men who dared be involved with his baby sister And after the way Judd had faced him down yesterday"Cal Psy" Oh, God What if Judd killed Drew?

She thrust a hand through her hair Inspiration struck She could either goon her heel, she ran after Lucy Her friend s crashed in Hawke’s office They both looked up as the door renched open and Sienna Lauren ca out The door slammed shut after her, as if it had been kicked The seventeen-year-old didn’t see the in the opposite direction, head down, fists clenched

Lucy raised an eyebrow "That one doesn’t act Psy, does she?"

"No" Brenna thought about going after the clearly upset girl, but Sienna didn’t know her and would probably not welcome the interference

"Not like your one That man is pure ice Sexy ice but still ice"

Brenna had a moment’s pause "How do you knoe’re involved?"

Lucy’s laugh was open and honest "Did you hit your head or so, Bren? You smell like him, silly"

"Oh" But she shouldn’t, not that deep A scent layer only grew ingrained - unable to be washed off - between lovers Soot himself executed for killi - Stop! "Lucy, I need a favor Can you get access to a vehicle?"

"Sure So can you"

"Not without Riley finding out U to break the rules, but she wasn’t going to be stupid about it

"Riley’s got some burr under his bonnet," LucyI’ll sneak you out and it’ll be ?"

"Miss Leozandra’s Beauty Parlor" S to take care of unfinished business this rapevine had confirmed that the bitch was finally alone and unprotected All he had to do was lure her to one of the die

She’d come If she had remembered his face, she would have squealed by now It didn’t matter She had to die - he couldn’t take the chance of herThey’d rip open his stouts while he was still alive if they learned what he’d done The drugs and Ti compared to his first crime

He bit down the fear She’d couys

Once in the garage, he’d overdose her with the Rush already loaded into the pressure injector, shove her into the trunk of one of the Pack cars, and drive out No one would ever figure out where she’d gone Or they’d blame Judd Lauren Yes, that would work He’d make it look like Judd had killed her, maybe leave a knife coated with her blood in the Psy’s room

He smirked, fear buried under sick exciteot to her aparterous scent of the Psy she was undoubtedly fucking He backed off without touching anything The scent could be there because Judd had spent ti, set up so for Bren?" A sone off with Lucy Saw the out he’d been looking for her It er her aut churned as he walked away He could do nothing noould have to wait until the grinning fool who’d interrupted hiot he’d ever seen him outside that door But he couldn’t wait forever Brenna ht remember

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To Brenna’s surprise, they made it out of den territory without a problem She crawled out of the backseat and asked Lucy to stop once they were no longer in any danger of being spotted by scouts "I can take it fro more

"I need to drive"

"Have at it I’ll run back and pretend ignorance if Riley grills me"

Brenna returned her ot out and Brenna , she watched her friend disappear into the woods Then she took a deep breath and the wheel Her lips stretched into a huge smile This felt like freedom

The drive from the snow of the Sierra to the cold but dry bustle of San Francisco was spookily s to stop her, no red lights Perfection She should’ve known it was too easy After finding a vertical street park - her car being slotted up into the third level - she began the trek to the beauty parlor Trouble struck less than a old hair materialized out of nowhere to lean on the wall in front of her "I thought you were supposed to re her arms, she stared at the DarkRiver sentinel "They snitched ht be their allies, but were not yet friends However, she trusted Vaughn He’d coht’ve been unconscious at the tihn was safe

Of course, at this moment he didn’t look particularly happy to see her "The situation’s volatile So friendly"

"Oh" She’d failed to take that into account, an inexcusable et out and fix this one thing she could fix, even if her o back, huh?" She couldn’t hide her disappointment