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"You all right?" Ellison asked

"Yes, yes, I’m fine ConnorIt ful They just took him!"

"I know We’re on it"

"But why take him? He’s a cub, but not in human terms, not like Olaf"

Ellison went silent, and Maria raised her head to find his gray eyes troubled "I admit, I don’t know But we’ll find hi around her So good to be able to lay her head on his shoulder, for hiht with her

"Hey!" A voice sounded across the convenience store’s tiny parking lot "Shifters aren’t allowed here"

Maria turned around, hot words on her lips, but Ellison stopped her "Never o hunt for Connor"

Maria clamped her mouth shut She didn’t like the convenience store clerk’s sneering expression, but noas not the tiht this battle After they found Connor, she’d cos to him

Ellison helped her onto the back of the motorcycle As she had only yesterday, Maria wrapped her arms around him and let him carry her away

She realized after Ellison had made a few turns away fro back to Shiftertown He rode the, with its eht as well be in the middle of nowhere

Ellison stopped in the open space in front of Pablo Marquez’s warehouse Guys working on two high-end cars gave Maria and Ellison warning looks as they left the bike and went inside

Pablo Marquez sat at his desk in his office, tapping a laptop’s keyboard "I already talked to Dylan," he said before Ellison reached hiested soo away now I’m busy"

Ellison walked steadily to the desk and stopped in front of it, doing nothing but standing there "You knohere Clifford Bradley is," he said "Don’t you?"