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He nodded "Well, skeletons, actually"

"They’ll probably do just as well as zoic Which et over there Menolly, you can attack the bone-walkers and keep the If they have a huain, we have to keep anyde to head back out into the blustery night But there was an egg out there, and we had to take it apart "Give us the address Then you go home and rest We may need you later"

Chase handed ht want to call in the Supe Coot them on standby One phone call and they head out to

I lingered behind for atill they were out on the main floor "Chase…" I wasn’t sure what I wanted to say, but I knew I had to say so So much had happened since we’d first met

"Yeah?" He wearilyby the knee so the splint didn’t co on the edge "A lot’s happened since you brought arrote Jocko I re to look up my dress"

He snorted "Yeah, I was I ad at them "I remember the first day I met the three of you I couldn’t believe how full of life you were Delilah made me nervous, and Menolly scared the crap out of ht up in fantasies of hoould seduce you and then…and then…well, back then, I didn’t have an ‘after the act’ in ed "I’ve been there Hell, I didn’t expect to end up married"

"To three men, no less?" He winked at me

"Oh, I could seeI didn’t plan on" I paused, trying to find the words for what I wanted to say "Chase…you’ve grown So much has happened to you--to all of us I just want you to know that whatever happens…with the deot your back Whatever you need, you’re part of our family, and so is your family Because, unexpected or not, with a baby on the way and Sharah ht h hell and I have a feeling it’s only going to continue I have no clue what the future holds, except that--barring a deadly accident--it holds a lot of long years for lad we’re all in this together"

"Just think You’re going to be a father, Chase" I smiled at him

"Wow Yeah," he said, a look of wonder on his face And with that, he let go of ers, and I patted his cheek and followed my sisters out the door

The rain hadn’t let up In fact, it orse The night was relatively war in the freezing cold We’d long ago resigned ourselves to getting soaked while working, and now I ht--bustiers to skirts to boots--could take a little rain, if not a deluge

"So, the egg’s in another cemetery?" Smoky asked

I nodded, my eyes firmly on the road "Yeah, but it’s an old one; there hasn’t been anybody planted there for years It’s tucked back behind an abandoned church And guess where it’s located?"

Morio groaned "The Greenbelt Park District?"

"Bingo That place has a lot of ceh technically, most of thezagged through the streets, skirting the cars parked along the narrow street

Abby and Fritz’s house had been on a relatively spacious street, but ere now in the older part of the district Here, the houses were falling apart, with few of therown that it was difficult to hts shined through the night, and what few did were shrouded behind blinds and ratty-looking curtains

We silently glided through the maze of streets until we came to a turnoff onto a side street filled with potholes It was barely wide enough for one car at a ti to see the road in the rain, under the streetlights that were spaced few and far between

Eventually, to the left, I saw the broken gates to an overgrown ceo disappeared, but I kneas the right one--it was exactly where Chase had told us it would be

I pulled through the arches, cautiously entering the parking circle As I slowed, then turned off the engine, Menolly’s Jag pulled in behind " With a sigh, I opened ear from the backseat and we all climbed out

Menolly and Delilah wandered over to ure out where ere Chase had told us that the egg could be found about a block down thein five different directions

Menolly stood back "Hold on" She closed her eyes, slightly unsteady on her feet, and the next thing we knew, she’d turned into a bat

I blinked Ever since Roman had re-sired her, she’d made remarkable leaps in some of the old-school vamp stuff that seemed to be the domain of mostly the elder va with Dredge’s, Menolly was turning into one scary-assed dead girl

She swooped off into the night and aited, sorting out our weapons We’d brought enough silver to arain, although ear

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