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Vishous stood in the clinic&039;s parking lot and watched as Rhage and Phury pulled out in the black Mercedes They were going to grab Butch&039;s phone from the alley behind Screamer&039;s, then pick up the Escalade from the ZeroSu that V wasn&039;t going back into the field tonight The reered in his body,Butch worked out and nearly dead had done soe He had the sense that a part of hiing open and seg the core

Actually, he&039;d had this feeling for a while now, ever since his visions had left hiht made it so much worse

Privacy He needed to be alone Except he couldn&039;t stand the idea of going back to the Pit The silence there, the ee that there was so, would be unbearable

So he went to his undisclosed place Taking forain thirty stories in the air, he materialized on the terrace of his penthouse at the Coh his clothes,hole in his chest

He went to the terrace&039;s edge Bracing his ar, he looked over the lip of the skyscraper, down to the streets below There were cars People going into the lobby So the driver So normal So very nor

Butch was not going to a had been inside him; that was the only explanation for what had been done to hih the evil had been taken out, its infection was beyond deadly and the harm was done

V rubbed his face What the hell was he going to do without that sh bastard soes of life, probably because he was like sandpaper, a scratchy, persistent wrong-way-rub-that left everything more even

V turned away fro over to a door, he took a gold key out of his pocket and pushed it into the lock The penthouse beyond was his private space, for his private¡­ endeavors And the scent of the feered in the darkness

At his will, black candles flared The walls and the ceilings and the floors were black and the chro it up The only true piece of furniture was a king-sized bed that was likewise covered in black satin sheets But he didn&039;t spend a lot of time on the mattress

The rack hat he relied on The rack with its hard table-top and its restraints And he also used the things hanging beside it: the leather straps, the lengths of cane, the ball gags, the collars and spikes, the whips¡ªand always the masks He had to have the females anonymous, had to cover their faces as he tied up their bodies He didn&039;t want to know the more than the equipment for his deviant workouts

Shit, he was depraved about sex and he knew it, but after trying out a lot of things, he&039;d finally found orked for him And fortunately there were females who liked what he did to theot when he ht as he looked at his equipment, his perversions made him feel dirty Maybe because he never came here unless he was ready to use what he had, so he&039;d never given the place a look-see when his head was clear

His cell phone&039;s ring startled hilanced at the number, he numbed out Havers "Is he dead?"

Havers&039;s voice was all professional-doctor sensitive Which was the tip-off that Butch was hanging by a spider&039;s thread "He coded, sire He pulled the IV out and his vitals dipped We brought hi"

"Can you restrain him?"

"I did But I want you to be prepared He&039;s just a human¡ª"

"No, he is not"

"Oh¡­ of course, sire, but I didn&039;tback I want to be with hiitated whenever anyone&039;s in the rooht now he&039;s as stable as I can make him and as comfortable as possible"

"I don&039;t want hi alone"

There was a pause "Sire, we all die alone Even if you were in the room with him, he would still leave unto the Fade¡­ alone He needs to be kept cal to revive We&039;re doing everything we can for him"

V put a hand over his eyes In a snize, he said, "I don&039;t¡­ I don&039;t want to lose him I, ah¡­ yeah, don&039;t knohat I would do if he¡ª" V coughed a little "Fuck"

"I shall care for him as mine own Give hihtfall toets worse"

V hung up the phone and found hi at one of the lit candlewicks Over its black wax torso, the captured little head of light weaved in the currents of the rooht yellow of it was¡­ well, it was kind of like the color of blond hair, wasn&039;t it

He whipped out his cell, deciding that Havers rong about the no-visitors thing It just depended on who the visitor was

As he dialed, he resented the only option he had And knew that what he was doing probably wasn&039;t fair Probably would cause a helluva lot of trouble, too But when your best friend was doing the toive a shit about a lot of things

"Mistress?"

Marissa looked up fro chart for the Princeps dinner was in front of her, but she couldn&039;t concentrate All that searching of the clinic and the house and she&039;d co that sogen in the doorway, "Yes, Karolyn?"

The servant bowed "A call for you On line one"

"Thank you" The doggen inclined her head and left as Marissa picked up the receiver "Hello?"

"He&039;s in the room down by your brother&039;s lab"