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"Okay" I’d rather he hung up and left straightaway, but I was realistic enough to know that was never going to happen when he had news to share Why he couldn’t leave and talk I had no idea – other than the fact it wasn’t legal to drive while on the phone

Not that legalities had ever stopped hiht then," he continued "I went through public records, and discovered the company that owns that particular warehouse is a "

I frowned The na a distant bell – I’d seen or heard that nah? "What do they manufacture?"

"I have no idea, because I can’t uncover much inforht be a shelf company, except for the fact that they own that warehouse"

"Can’t shelf coiven they were initially designed for people wanting to start a new company without the hassle of all the paperwork required to create one"

"When did they buy the warehouse? There has to be solanced down, and I heard the clicking of a keyboard Jak was the old-fashioned type – none of these fancy light screens and keyboards for him Hell, he still jotted downhis so"

I frowned I’d been born twenty-eight years ago Which didn’t actually , beyond the suspicion that it wasn’t actually coincidental "Who by?"

"A bloke by the naistered owner of the company Problem is, the only Michael Greenfield I can find is in the matches and dispatches database – he apparently died forty-odd years ago"

I wondered if he was any relation to Adeline Greenfield, the witch who’d taughthis naistered as the owner of that building was born overseas, not here"

"Yep I’ve just sent a request to an English mate to search the databases there, but I don’t know anyone in the US or in Europe who could help us"

"You could always join ancestryco

He snorted "That wouldn’t help us if he’s changed his na our luck, there’d be thousands of Michael Greenfields out there in the wider world "I’ll get Stane on it, too"

That’s if Stane hadn’t had enough of ht be able to find soh what I’ve found, and I’ve asked Jason – the English mate – to copy you on any replies he makes If you could do the same with Stane, I’d appreciate it"

"Will do" I hesitated, then added, "Now go ho but --" He paused, frowning as he glanced at soe"

"What?" I said, hts in the foyer just went out"

"Jak, get out of there Use the stairs or sohts over his head went out, plunging hi as ordered," he said, confusion and perhaps a touch of fear in his voice

"Hide if you can I’ll be there in a minute" But if it was a vampire – if it was Hunter – then he didn’t even have a et there now And the quickest way to do that was to have Azriel take ht be fast for me nowadays, but travel wasn’t instantaneous It ith Azriel

"Problerabbed a jacket from the back of one of the chairs as I juht then I didn’t care My handbag was in my bedrooht barely crossedoutoverthe cops and the a ASAP?"

As Tao nodded and reached for his phone, Azriel caught my free hand and pulled me close I had a brief ainst y ripped through us both He transported us through the gray fields so fast that the reapers’ ethereal, unworldly hoht blur We re-formed into darkness A darkness ripe with the od…

Azriel? Can you see anything? I swung around,to catch the source and location of the blood Trying to discover if Jak was here

Whether his attacker still was

The vampire is to your left He runs for the foyer doors Azriel hesitated Remember, reaper rules mean I cannot interfere unless he attacks you