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"You’re not going to be sick, Glory You did fine And keep the arrow Put it in one of the shopping bags" Diana wrapped ht want to study it later"

"Good thinking" I couldn’t quit shaking Diana had pulled herself together and was now fairly calging all of our shopping bags "I’ve taken care of our witnesses" She looked at Diana "Wow, you already took out the arrow?"

"Glory did it" Diana leaned against the car "Valdez saved us I moved when he jumped at Glory If I hadn’t…" She swayed and I reached around her to open the car door

"Get inside" I looked around the dark parking lot The es in the backseat

"Valdez, you’re our hero"

" Just doing my job" Valdez looked at me " You okay?"

"Sure I’m fine It’s Diana we should worry about" I helped her into the front seat "Flo, watch andfollowed"

"Will do, Glory" Flo reached over the seat to pat Diana’s shoulder "Let me touch your wound, Diana I think I can heal it"

"Really? You think? You’re not sure?"

"Not one hundred percent"

Diana winced when another car leaving the lot passed us, flooding the interior of our car with light She held her aret hoet out of here"

"Good idea" More andlot If Westas still around, he et us out of here But I think Westwood’s gone" Valdez looked around " I’ve got his scent now He’s not getting near us without warning again"

I pulled out of the parking lot The arroas in a bag on the floorboard under Diana’s seat It gave me the creeps So did the near miss we’d just had A few inches to the left and Diana would be dead, a new trophy for Westwood’s necklace

"He lad we lived so close to the mall A few more minutes and we’d be ho at Diana, Blondie He was aied ot your picture, remember? It was dark She’s blond, you’re blond And about the sa so badly I had to pull over No traffic to speak of If Westas following us, I was being pretty stupid But I didn’t want to hit a tree or another car either I breathed through nausea I had to drive Flo couldn’t and Diana wasn’t in any shape to I gave myself a ear again And I drove, on auto to kill ift Blade had ever givento let Brent Westwood steal it away froot out first and sniffed until he gave us the all clear Then we hurried into the back door, Flo punching in the security code Diana lived on the third floor We took her to her own apartment and sat her in a kitchen chair

"Now I’m not sure this ork But I do think I can heal you" Flo pulled off her oeater and rolled up the sleeves of her green silk blouse "Just like all of us, I heal fang s before" She held out her leg "I had a bad scrape onSee? I touch I healed"

"That’s a" I was constantly surprised by Flo’s powers It seemed like a neer had shown up every week since she’dwhat her brother could do… Not thinking about that now Diana was still bleeding Flo pulled the wrapping off Diana’s wound "This is pretty bad Maybe you should sleep it off"

"Go ahead and try What could it hurt?" Diana was really pale "It already stings like a son of a bitch" I walked into her kitchen and got a can of Bloody Merry, popping the top before handing it to her

"Take a swig It should help"

"Good, Glory Now you watch me If this works, you ant to kno to do this" Flo glanced at rimaced "With luck, you won’t have to"

She placed her hands on either side of Diana’s ar down at the wound and obviously concentrating all her energies "I’ ht for ato work