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He stared at her "It is not only plants"

"I can do it for ani that has some life left in it That is why Donatien wants me For the ones he hurts" She stared at the fern "Because I can keep them alive"

Sa at the Chief of Hoot some updates on the convent"Tell me"

She took out her PDA and punched up her notes "Victile, lives alone, no kids Currently owns a fetish place called Club Donificant other, no family other than an elderly father in Brooklyn NYPD will handle the notification"

"Dominion’s that one across froht that was a private BYOB club"

"Bergen got a liquor license and opened it to the public about a year ago," she said "Clientele’s been busted a few ti vice sweeps, but no working girls or anything else to blow air up the Mayor’s tasteful skirt It’s a place to dress out and hookup How long are we going to do this?"

"As long as it takes" He glanced up and saw her expression "If you’re talking about Suarez, he won’t be in Kyn business"

"I’uess I don’t count" Sam sat down and took a pocket recorder from her jacket "This is voice-activated For those tiuys decide that Sam can’t handle that all-important, hush-hush Kyn business"

She switched on the tape, which played a conversation first between Lucan and Rafael, and then between Lucan and Herbert Burke When it was finished, she switched it off

"I like the parts where everyone decides what’s good for uy who appears to be the pri murder case," she said sweetly "Don’t you?"

Garcia picked up the recorder and regarded it the saht a dead rat "Somehow I doubt the suzerain will appreciate the fact that you’ve bugged his office"

"I will deal with the suzerain later, I assure you" Her te since she’d listened to the tape, flared "Now can we stop dancing around this and you giveup so with my partner?"

His expression shuttered "I can’t tell you anything more than what is on that tape"

"You’re Rafael’s tresora, of course you can" She waited for hio looking for theht? We don’t have that o beat the hell out of someone anyway"

Garcia hissed in a breath "You can’t Sas about the Kyn that you’re better off not knowing Donatien – the Marquis – is one of theht so" She enjoyed his wince over the slip "This Donatien en, which makes it my business"

"Donatien is not Kyn" He rubbed a hand over his shaved scalp "You re who tried to kill Lucan?"

"Snake-man, sure," she said "I cut off his tail Made hiettable"

"Faryl hat happens to a Kyn when they live only on animal blood," Garcia told her "There have been Kyn ent the other ho refused to curtail their hunger They not only kill humans, they toy with them Like cats with an, and he was a happened" Garcia seereat care "It should have killed hierous"

She folded her arive me all the facts, Cap"

Ernesto rose to his feet and went to the onehe had in his office, which overlooked the depart lot "If I do, Lucan will have my head"

"I’ll have it if you don’t, and you have to ith e"