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"I don&039;t re you the address," he said, "just that it&039;s out by you"

Shit, I was more tired than I knew "Give it to me"

"Nope, Captain Storr and Kirkland both warned ht"

I cursed silently "Are you really picking ive me the address when you&039;re closer?"

"I&039;ll pick you up; it really is on the way"

"I&039;ll be ready; hurry, Brice You do not want to be inside the place when that ht"

"No, I don&039;t," he said, and hung up

Nathaniel hugged ers to kiss along htness of his arm said it for him

Micah looked at me and took my hand in his "Be careful"

"I will be"

We had a o I&039;d have led back down into the war thetheo home and be with the people I loved Zerbrowski said I was having the ten-years-on-the-jobHis reply: "You hat amounts to serial killers, or sex crimes, violent crimes; everyone burns out on those details, even you"

I sat there in the dark with that thread of sunlight across the sheets, giving enough light for me to see Micah and Nathaniel by, let theth of theo Twenty vampires minimum was a lot to kill in less than two hours I was pretty sure that Jean-Claude could keepany ofNathaniel, but I&039;d never been as happy as I was right now Does happiness make us cowards? If someone had threatened the people I loved, I would have been ruthless to protect them, but there was no threat to me and mine I was about to leave this warm bed, these warm arms, this happy family, and the rest of our family that stayed mostly at Circus of the Dauys Wonderful knowing I&039;d saved the other innocent victiainst me, his lips so soft on ood in ainst them, and we held each other, and for the first tiht have done it

I let myself think in the front ofin the back for a while Maybe the world would be safe withoutMarshal Anita Blake Maybe new Marshals like Arlen Brice could save the day and I could find a different way to live