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Chapter Forty-nine

"Doctor Hector tells me you can&039;t speak, sley He had eased down at the foot of the gurney I think my end of the sley was hunched into a sort of cannonball, his meaty knees up around his chest He looked uncomfortable and didn&039;t seem to knohat to do with his thick arms He was dressed in another shirt, clearly one that wasn&039;t his own, since that had been bloodied and shredded His oounds had long since healed

He reached out and touchedout of the thick blanket covering me I flinched and withdrew it He nodded to himself "I deserved that I deserve, in fact, for you to never talk to ain I should consider myself lucky that I have you here, alone, in this small place, so that you are y"

I was still in soered Perhaps there were trace eleed in my muscle tissue? Lord, I hoped not Or, more than likely,themselves

Lord, I&039;ish hair spilled over his collar Known as ahis hair long and thick and lustrous Then again,locks were a result of his own particular wolfish condition Now, for the first tisley looked at me so tenderly thattonight, kid I&039;h that alone I should have been there earlier to help" He ain, but stopped himself This ti "You deserved better You deserved a friend who supported you through thick and thin, good and bad Who am I to tell you how to run your life, how to deal with your dying boy? Who am I to play God from afar? You made the best choice you could, and I should have been there to support you My God, I&039;m an ass, and I almost lost you forever because of it Look at you, babe You can&039;t even talk Your poor throat And you did this all to help another boy, risking life and limb and the very medallion you need to help your son, and I couldn&039;t even be there for you"

Now I did so that surprised even me I leaned forward and took his warm hand It took both of ripped each other like this for a few minutes

I wanted to tell him that he did come, that he did help me, that he did save sley&039;s thoughts An ihtly, running his thick thu how I came to be there on ti here part, not so ious error when I had ht my raised eyebrows "Oh, you didn&039;t know his name?"

Ah, so the bastard had a name Dominique I was certain I hadn&039;t seen the last of hisley continued, "I can&039;t be certain, but I think Doh to read the minds of fellow im enough to learn how to guard hts and knew that you and that dahts He thenabout it and I felt oddlycompelled to tell him what I knew He&039;s a bastard A sneaky bastard, but what do you expect frouarded in his presence"

Kingsley looked away and I wanted to desperately ask hi it with? Another wosley had been famous as a womanizer Did his harem of wohts were cut short when Kingsley went on

"I kneas staying at the Mission Inn In fact, he&039;s been here for quite some time After I blurted out the info on the e, nervous I should have warned you Instead, I lashed out at you, perhaps erous artifact a secret And when I heard about the kidnapping at the hospital, it seemed fairly obvious to me what had happened, and I headed out to the Mission Inn iht ihtly, which tore at

"Easy," he said "Nolady Anyway, I&039;m quite familiar with your scent and I was soon on the trail"

What every woht

I think he readbad, of course Your scent is all your own, and the way uish individual scents froift Hey, you turn into a giant vampire bat and I can smell feet"

I slapped his hand and stifled hter He squeezed my hand tenderly and looked atdeep in my heart Love?

Da pair of stairs when I cauy looked like he&039;d been through hell, face bloodied and all He ihts of stairs, and that&039;s when I heard the gunshots I ca man went off to, or who he was, I haven&039;t a clue - "

Leland had, of course, been there by uardian angel with a crush

Kingsley went on, "And before I knew it, I was on top of Dominique and I think you know the rest The boy, Eddy, I believe, is safely with his faly, he too spoke of a youngman who had helped me Do you know him, Sam?"

I si hero and there are a lot of people ant to thank hi, of course, for the man who kidnapped Eddy, but for the most part, the police are unaware of your involvement, Sam Thanks in part to Detective Hanner She can put quite a spell on people She even went back and cleaned up your blood Mine, too"

He continued strokingin his eyes Thefree, too

Daivea holier-than-thou ass, but if you can find it in your heart to give me one ain You see" And now he covered my two hands with both of his, and never have I felt so protected "I think I&039; for you, Sam, and I don&039;t want to screw it up any worse than I already have"

His words caught hts

"Take care of yourself, kiddo, and take care of your little one, too You&039;re a good mother, and I respect you more than you can possibly know"

He leaned over the gurney and kissed htly on h the ambulance&039;s door

Chapter Fifty

I awoke by my son&039;s side in the early afternoon

With Dominique still out there, it was hard to truly feel at peace, although I suspected any attack noould be on me personally, and not my son, since the medallion was still sealed to one, I hadn&039;t a clue But I would be ever vigilant for him and perhaps others like him, especially since he had proven to be such a bastard