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Ethan looked at ht dissuade me I just s Sentinel of the city’s best vaet to break a few human laws?"

Ethan arched an eyebrow "Working on your brownnosing gaets me what I want, yes"

"I could make a phone call," Catcher said, "ask for forh the house But if they say no, they’ll be on alert, and that will et in"

"And if you don’t make that call," I said, "we may be able to use our considerable skills to slip inside undetected?"

"So like that And if she does have a work space, there’s a chance she’ll be there, that she slipped past the guards and got inside"

"Then she should mind her manners," Ethan said "Because this won’t be a social visit"

"I say skip the call," I said, "and don’t put them on alert" I looked at Ethan

He considered in silence for a ets"

"Since I don’t have a closet stocked with chocolate, that is literally incorrect," I said "But good about this Sorcha thing"

"While you’re coic," Catcher said "And ht at the House"

It wasn’t the first tied into the House’s ward, she’d stayed here to keep it running She’d since figured out a way to power it with good old electricity; she just had to check thethe way it should have

"No objection," Ethan said "I’m fairly certain your manners are better than Sorcha’s"

It wasn’t a difficult threshold to meet

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We were dressed in black, which wasn’t especially unusual for va a s worth larceny

Luc insisted Brody take the wheel of the SUV, giving us at least one ot into trouble But we didn’t plan to get into trouble The steady expression on Ethan’s face said that rown even colder Only five degrees above zero, according to the current weather report The snow had stopped; maybe the heat sink had sucked all the available moisture from the sky