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"Are there any os to be worried about here?" Frost asked

"We don’t know Fraser’s alive," Ty answered "So we’ll get it out of hi To be able to reach your girl and turn her, it couldn’t be a local in charge"

"Guys," Deuce said, his voice shaking "Can we please find ripped Deuce’s shoulder and squeezed "We’ll stick together, e coround that way"

"Why not just call to them if they’re down here?" Frost asked

"If so for theet to thelish answered before Ty could respond "We should look first"

Ty nodded and glanced at Deuce again "That’s your call, bud"

"That’s et to her before I do We’ll look for theave him a curt nod He hadn’t expected any other answer He turned to English and the others "What did you see the way you cae rooms," Frost answered "Some of them look like they were once jail cells"

Ty and Deuce shared a look "Definitely part of the castle colish asked "It’s on the other side of the island"

Ty nodded "You see our problelish snarled

"What inforht now?" Kelly asked Zane When Fraser had regained consciousness, they’d tied hiun aimed at his face

"We need to kno many, and who The whys and hows can co Kelly work, fascinated Kelly was patching Nick’s side up, with Nick laid out on a table, his face turned away fro off a rib It had been just enough to knock hie of the cliff and draw blood, but it hadn’t done any per solue froet e need fro into the walls to find Ty," Zane told thees open up when you go down a level," Nick said, his voice having returned to his usual soothing, sedate tone "It’s a maze down there, natural caves and lava tubes o all the way over to the castle ruins"

Zane felt the blood draining from his face That was a lot of territory to cover "Can you find those kids, O’Flaherty?" Zane asked, his voice coher and more accusatory than he’d intended

Nick turned his head and met Zane’s eyes "Yes"

He sat up when Kelly was done Kelly had cut his tattered shirt off hireen eyes were hard when they landed on Jockie Fraser, and his jaas set "Give me five minutes with him first"

Zane looked fro at thelanced over his shoulder when he heard Nick’s words Hehim questions It hadn’t been very effective, with Fraser repeatedly refusing to answer and deal counsel It was time for a new tack

Earl and Zane picked Fraser’s chair up, carrying hiame room next door, where the billiards table took up rabbed a towel from behind the bar and threw it over his shoulder, then he sat to unlace his shoes and pull the?" Fraser asked when they set his chair down, eyes still wide Earl checked his bonds, refusing to answer

Nick took one of his socks off, then stood and strolled over to the billiard table He glanced over at Fraser as he reached into one of the pockets, then pulled one of the billiard balls out and dropped it into his sock His expression stayed coan to shake his head "You’re insane You can’t do this!"

"This can be avoided if you tell us e need to know," Zane said "Who paid you?"

Fraser glared at Zane His hawklike nose was badly broken and his eyes were swelling shut fro, Fraser, or I let him at you," Zane said with a jerk of his head at Nick

"You’re bluffing," Fraser spat

Zane shrugged "I lanced over his shoulder at Nick, as standing and staring at Fraser with the same dead-eyed expression he’d awoken with "But he’s not"

Earl patted Zane on the shoulder and headed for the door Zane lingered, giving Fraser a last chance to talk and watching Nick with a sinking feeling in his sto in its sock, de just how effective it would be as a weapon

Fraser jutted his abused chin out, refusing to speak again

Zane didn’t say anything h the door When he turned to pull it shut, he got a gli in front of Jockie Fraser, his feet shoulder-width apart, his bare back covered with a Celtic cross tattoo that followed his spine from the base of his neck to the small of his back Three whiplike scars crisscrossed hisfroers

Zane lowered his head and pulled the door shut before the first screareat hall

Ty turned the corner and almost smacked into a brick wall before Deuce could folloith the flashlight He held his ar as they stood in the dead end of the corridor, fu and desperate

"Backtrack," Ty mur corridor Ty e X on the wall, and they continued to retrace their steps

"Will you let me at least tie your arm down?" Deuce asked

"I need it It’s fine," Ty insisted, and he slid his hand into his waistband as a

They met up with the other three at what Ty had deee section of tunnel that appeared to have been cut fro?" Deuce asked the others They all answered with negatives, and they all looked sy desperation

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