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"Exa ahead of us We followed her into the sterile rooreen, which was supposed to be soothing but just made me depressed

Smoky laid Camille on the table while Sharah washed her hands and slipped on a pair of nonlatex gloves Latex bothered her skin, as it dida hellhound when soh to the bone on the side" I hovered, worried "She wouldn’t leave until we finished et her to back off"

Sharah glanced up at ht," she said as she unwrapped the bandage The wound was really festering now, and pus oozed out of the deep hole "Mother Arachne, look at that"

"Will she be okay?" Smoky asked from the foot of the table, arms crossed, a pensive look on his face Morio stood beside hiine itthe look of this wound Did you know that the acid in the hellhound’s blood is used by the dwarves up in the Nebelvuori Mountains to etch designs on their lanced up at us "It’s a prized commodity there You could have ather the creature’s blood before it vanished"

"We weren’t exactly thinking along an to stir as Sharah cleansed the wound, lowering the injured hand into a basin that contained so solution Wisps of white smoke curled up as it bubbled around the wound "I hear you," she said "The infection is topical--on the surface I don’t think it’s had time to work its way into her bloodstrea up at me "Another half hour, and she’d be on her way to dead And a very painful death it would be"

Suddenly feeling faint, I leaned back against the wall It hadn’t occurred toperhaps Fatal had never entered ht his breath with a sharp hiss

As Sharah inspected the deep hole in Camille’s hand, my sister stirred andconfused

"Hush," Sharah said "You fainted fro to be okay Now, if you’d just tell your doting husbands and sister to get the hell out of here, I can take care of this a lot better without therin but nodded toward the door "Get h she’ll have to wear a dressing for a while She ht"

Before I could get to her, Sentle kiss on Caht outside," he murmured Not to be outdone, Morio followed suit

As they reluctantly left, I brushed Camille’s hair away fro to go find Chase I’ll be back in a little while" I headed for the door, adding, "If she gives you any guff, Sharah, just let hed "No problem Go on now I think Chase is in his office"

With a last look at Ca out the door and headed back to the waiting roo on one of those uncomfortable, too-low sofas you always find in hospitals They were talking in hushed whispers I gave theh the labyrinth of hallways to Chase’s office

The knowledge that Cahtenedtalk with Chase We would work through whatever was bothering him I’d never been in a relationship before, except with other cats when I was in cat forether different nature Considering that I was involved with an FBH, I thought I was handling things pretty well, though I knew Menolly didn’t think we had a chance Camille kept whatever she felt to herself

Chase’s door was closed, and I barged in without knocking, like I’d done so many times before "Hey love, surprise!"

What I saw stopped me cold I started to sweat, my hand still on the doorknob A lovely brunette, petite with big boobs and dressed to kill in as probably sos spread wide, with Chase standing between theht hand stroked her clit His pants were down around his feet, and he was sliding his cock into her pussy At the sound of my entrance, he thrust so hard she let out a little shriek

"What the fuck is going on?" I heard the sound of

"Oh God, I’ htened The woainst hihten his jacket His penis poked through He obviously still had the boner fro toward her, the wo at her skirt hem She sliht I really didn’t need at the ave me a satisfied smirk

"This isn’t" Chase started to say, then stopped He hung his head "I’ to lie to you This is exactly what it looks like This is Erika She’sere engaged five years ago"

Chase had told otten that little fact So, lie number one

Furious, unsure what to say, I just stared at the two of the bored and vaguely annoyed Chase was staring at me, his dark eyes haunted and luminous

I wanted to run over and throw my arms around him, to beat the crap out of Erika, to stake ht to do that I’d slept with Zachary, the werepuh for hi somebody else He’d lied to me And I hated liars

After aon?"

Chase dropped into the chair next to his desk He looked over at Erika "Maybe you’d better leave I need to talk to Delilah"

She gaveand swished out the door "Call me when you’re ready for dinner," she said over her shoulder, and I knew she wasn’t talking to me

I waited till she’d closed the door behind her and then turned back to Chase "When were you going to tell me about her?"