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The wo her disdainful tone "I thought this was your specialty"

Through the slats in the door, I saw Poe pull hishis nose curve ht he’d paid his visit to the Phone Co h was as soft as her voice "Your skills and those errands are the only reason you’re still alive"

"I suppose I’er in the light of day than he had the night of the masquerade "Since it’s thanks to you I still draw breath?"

"Yes"

Poe set his jaw His anger spilled across the thick carpet and seeped between the slats of the closet door

"Have you ress?" the wo I use So, no" He held up a slim silver device that looked like a laptop computer but was half the size "Did you call him?"

"Only because you said ‘please’"

Lily tried to stand up straight, and the boxes behind her shifted when her weight was no longer on them She wobbled and almost fell when they hit her calves I put one arainst the wall to brace us Itsound

The woman frowned and looked in the direction of the closet

She tossed her dark hair over her shoulders and started walking toward us Lily squeezed her eyes shut I tensed in preparation, planning to get us out alive, no et us both past Poe, but Lily would go free

Teague walked past the closet and went to the office door I heard a new voice

"Hello, Teague"

The wo her was Dr Turner

Chapter 23

"Hello, Gerald" Teague arranged her expression into a slad you could come on such short notice"

When Lily exhaled, I realized how tightly Iher The fact that I hadn’t noticed spoke volumes about my anxiety level

"I cancelled ent as you e" He’d taken one of the fedoras from the moose antlers in his office and clamped it down over his head of white hair He reainst his other palm I noticed his suspenders for the first tie bow tie

"You’ll have to ask Edgar how urgent theher head toward Poe, who’d taken a seat in the corner

Edgar? I’d have gone with the nickname, too I wondered briefly if his middle naue didn’t tellfor your benefit I would’ve made it here much more quickly"

Poe stood and held out his hand "Sir"

Dr Turner shook it, and then his eyes caught the device Poe held He looked froain "Is this …?"