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Bruno got up, too, then knelt in front of lad you’re co home I love you You have no idea how badly you scared er "I just wish I could get my hands on the bastards who did this to you"

I shuddered at the look on his face I didn’t often see a resemblance between hianized cripins--or the man a vision had told me Bruno would have been if he’d never met me But at this moment, I saw it all too clearly

I don’t knohat expression he saw on my face, but it affected hi himself to calm down When he had hiently on the forehead "Let’s blow this pop stand"

"Sounds good to s that held the stuff I’d accuazines, toiletries, and other bits of junk Bruno promised the same nurse who’d remembered us from the M Necrose attack that he’d coreed to let hi as he did it soon She wheeledin the loading zone The car has heavily tinted s, and seats that are h to still sot onto Oceanview So him Rather than sit and brood about it, I decided to just ask hi," he said

"Then why aren’t you talking?"

His mouth twitched It wasn’t really a sh that I didn’t think he’d beto trace your knives using ic"

"Wow, um, thanks Any luck?"

"No"

Okay, that was just weird His blood was an essential part of their ically, he should be able to find them anywhere on the planet

"They haven’t been destroyed I’d know it if they had been But they’re being blocked from me"

I blinked a little stupidly at that Bruno is a top-level , and plenty of experience It would take somebody--or several so those blades Of course, it had taken ram spell

I looked more closely at him Bruno’s handsome features shoorry and exhaustion, and I’d have sworn there was a fine tracing of lines at the corners of his o I reached out and laid a hand on his ar

"I hate to lose them But if some collector has them behind wards that powerful, there’s not much we can do about it"

"There’s ine, and turned on the flashers I decided that whatever he was about to say, I wasn’t going to like

"On my last atteer a fraction apart "I wasn’t quite strong enough, so I called Matty We ether this afternoon"

That was a good idea Matty’s only a level-six e, but he kno to make theblood relations would er

"So what’s the probleot a call fro while I was on the way to the hospital to get you"

"And?"

"She wants ive me any details and she doesn’t want ive you a ride home when you were finished I don’t like it"