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So he opened the bonds that tied wolf to e, Open the door, please - and so to have to drink hotel coffee since I only brought enough for five federal agents

The door snapped open and she looked up at hiht with tears

You talked totheir bond fros with hiave him a rush of relief that almost hid the deep-seated sorrow and pain of abandon it - and still knew that it was the lesser of two evils He had to protect her froht didn’ther

"I don’t y

He was afraid that he was going to hurt her much worse before this was all over

Charles bent his head down and touched his nose to hers, closing his eyes to hide the effect of the knowledge of what he’d been doing to her - and the effect of feeling her, skin on skin, onceher away froers and find the nearest eo Charles wanted to say, "I’ you," but that i differently if he had to do it again He would never allow the ugliness of his life to stain her, not if he could help it

So he said soht her" He looked past her and into the room Except for the twodown around the table It estion, because all of the seated when so can be a position of power - a way of saying, "I aetting up" But when a monster comes into the roo h, was the level of his irritation with the two er Cantrip agent’s eyes The hu Brother Wolf Charles sent with his teeth "You invited yourself where you weren’t asked You can drink hotel coffee"

And now they’d think he really was stupid, because most humans wouldn’t understand that he’d needed to establish as in charge so that Brother Wolf would know that Anna was safe Giving an order that they would obey had established the pecking order It was okay they would think hie in a little s with the federal agents was soto Anna

She should have picked soht of Anna with soe

There is no one for me except you Anna’s quick response reminded him that he’d chosen to leave the bond between the up, but it was more than time to control himself

Charles moved past Anna and set the carriers down on the table Pulling out the single non-coffee for Anna, he handed it to her as he watched everyone sit perfectly still and drop their eyes except for the Cantrip agents: Anna had been educating the a chair with no one sitting next to her The Cantrip agents took empty chairs on the other side of the table after he warned the younger one away from Anna with a lifted eyebrow Charles stood behind Anna’s chair

"This is my husband, Charles," Anna told the to introduce ourselves again, now that we are all here I’ent Leslie Fisher," said the other feent eyes and a fir Goldstein," said a slender nround with this serial killer"

Charles nodded to the FBI agents Fisher’s background he knew, because he’d done background checks on all of the Boston VCU Goldstein he’d find out more about

"Ji He aiather inforood idea whom they’d send in froht people specializing in preternatural matters, and he had files on the Pierce’s smile Pierce’s face became a lot less happy and he pushed his chair back a few inches On his way to public office Do you think I should work on lanced back at hih But he read her ah," said the second Hoent

An old-fashioned patriot, Charles infor martial arts - style nods with the doctor He’s on record as personally classifying the fae and olves as doree with him Neither is here because they desire to help catch a serial killer Pierce won’t have anything to add Singh is sh he doesn’t care about the cri He didn’t know as ency than Ho when the olves outed theovernment, their role was "to collect and share inforroups and individuals," which left them a lot of leeway They had two main offices, one on either coast, and otherwise seemed to travel around the country to concern themselves mostly in cri else that looked odd to theents as harmless, since they had no authority to arrest or detain anyone Charles was less sanguine, as they were one of the governo aruns with silver bullets He had files on a lot of their people, but had decided to see who they sent before refreshing his ents tried (and failed) to meet his eyes, then stared rather intently at Anna, which caused Charles’s hackles to rise - and Brother Wolf didn’t like him much, either