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"What?"
"Hey," Chris Reordon said "I have so you need to read"
Which was Chris’s code for Sohts if you can
"All right"
I’an’s house We’re well on the way to re sensation on the back ofus It started about half an hour after you left
Have you found any surveillance equipment inside? Seth asked hi the interior Whoever is watching us is doing it fro trees
Vampire or huh dense shade to shelter a vampire I could call in reinforcehten the circle until we find whoever it is But I would have to give my men shoot to kill orders for their own protection in case it’s a vamp
And they couldn’t afford to lose any possible leads
Give h Even powerful immortals such as hian’s laundry room
Great See you then
Seth returned the cell phone to the bedside table, then rose and crossed to the adjoining bathroo cold water on his face did little to revive hiood nonetheless
He rubbed a towel briskly over his features
A sensation of fear poked at the edges of his consciousness Slowly lowering the towel, he strode back into the bedroo into a nightnized the pattern
Seth reached for the too-short sweatpants Marcus had loaned hie of clothes on the way back froan’s
Pants on, borrowed shirt in hand, Seth headed down to the basement at immortal speed He slowed and drew the shirt on as he approached Marcus’s closed bedrooes made no sound as he opened it
Marcus lay in bed beside Ami, propped up on one elbow
Ah held down by manacles Every once in a while she would jerk minutely, small twitches that broke Seth’s heart because he knehat caused the occasionally hitched with silent sobs
"What is it?" Marcus asked him, preternaturally quiet, as he stared down at her with concern
Seth strode to the bed "She dreaers to her forehead, he guided the dream away from the pain and toward happier ti, she curled onto her side and rubbed her cheek against her pillow Her breathing gre and even as she slipped deeper into sleep
Withdrawing his hand, Seth htradually stopped I had hoped they wouldn’t return"
"What did they do to her, Seth?" Marcus asked bluntly Dread and anger battled for dominance in his brown eyes
"That isn’t for me to tell" Seth left the room on silent feet and returned upstairs to fetch his boots Opening one of the guest bedroom’s dresser drawers, he found a clean pair of socks They, at least, should fit
"I need to know," Marcus insisted, striding through the doorway in a pair of hastily donned sweatpants as Seth sat on the edge of the bed
"You’ll know once you read the files," he replied and drew on a sock
"If sht those files will do?" He paused, brow furrowing "Wait Do you think telling me what she is did it?"
"No It was the sedative"
Marcus began to pace "I need to knohat happened to her, what they did" When Seth opened his mouth to refuse, Marcus stopped him "I can’t read those files in front of her, and I can’t leave her alone until this is all resolved Seth, if you loved her the way I do, if she were your woman, wouldn’t you need to know?"
Hell yes Seth had needed to knoithout the intimate connection to her Which hy this wasn’t the first tie
He drew on the other sock "I’ll tell you hoe found her Nothing more"
Marcus nodded and sat in the chair across the roo himself
"Ami didn’t scream aloud when they tortured her or experi a foot into a dirt-encrusted boot "David and I traced her cries telepathically until we located the facility in which they kept her, then broke in We found her in a lab that was a bit like a hospital operating room She was naked, uncovered, splayed out on a sturdy metal table that was bolted to the floor"
Marcus clutched the arms of his chair
Seth pulled on the other boot "Her ars were restrained by steelher coical scrubs and lab coats surrounded her Her body was emaciated and littered with small burns, puncture wounds, cuts, and contusions Two of her fingers had been reed"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>