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"Merit!"

I heard rabbed the man under his shoulders, laid him on the office floor

Brody hadn’t been a guard very long, and his eyes widened as he looked at me, dress ripped, hair around my face, and a bloody ht on," he said, offering a hand to help me clioing to check it out What happened in here?"

I edged around the ood enough for , but he’d have one hell of a headache when he woke up And he hadn’t killed hi Beneath hilitter that had been ht on the bookshelf, pushed my hair from my face "I’m not entirely sure I walked in, and he was here, and he went ballistic"

"He attacked you?"

"Yeah" I looked down at the rubby clothes, the chewed fingernails and cuticles Even on a longer look, no one I recognized "He look familiar to you?"

"No Should he?"

"No," I said, but that was really a guess I didn’t know if he should be familiar, if he was soe and randoestured to the phone on Ethan’s desk

"Call the Ops Roorandfather," I said, chest still heaving "Tell hiot a vampire, maybe sick, maybe mentally ill Definitely unconscious Tell hiet over here And find Ethan"

He didn’t hesitate "On it," he said, and double-timed it to Ethan’s desk, picked up the phone

One night before our wedding, and we had a hell of a mess on our hands

• • •

Brody called an House He stayed with uards to do an extra sweep of the grounds, and Juliet and Kelley, also guards, started a top-to-bottom search of the House

Ethan practically ran into the roo the his gaze on me "What the hell happened?"

"He was in your office I turned around, and he was standing there, talking about hearing sos that weren’t there"

"Paranoid?" Ethan asked "Schizophrenic?"

"I don’t know Strong, and irritated, and I think afraid"

"Irritated?" Malik asked