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"A janitor found you," Shade said "How are you doing?"

I’ nursery and I miss Con "Peachy" She scrubbed her eyes with the heel of her palm "Any news? On the vaccine?"

Lore nodded "E was up all night working on it, and the R-XR even allowed Wraith to bring specialists from USAMRIID into the hospital to help"

"They’ll be mind-wiped, of course," Shade said

Sin sipped the coffee, hissed when it burned her tongue "What’s going on with the ar and the"The last few hours have been fked-up The war is dragging a lot of different demon species into it Some that are loyal to the borns, soht Both sides have hiredis is working overti shit they shouldn’t be seeing Religious fanatics are screa to deflect, but it won’t be long before so on video and it ends up on the Internet or sorowled "Arik, that bastard, is holed up in ining his brother-in-law’s neck in them "And Runa won’t let me kill him" "That’s too bad," Sin said, but Shade totally missed the sarcas up, between Arik, Luc, Kar…"

"Good thing I have the cave set up for a warg shift," Shade muttered "Kar’s Feast shifts are insane"

"Luc er"

Shade snorted "No shit She nearly tore the hooks out of the stone It would have been better to put her in Runa’s cage at our house, but it’s not safe yet" "So the R-XR and The Aegis are still trying to exters?"

"Until E starts the vaccinations, yeah," Shade said "He’s hoping to start testing today" "Are Con, Wraith, and Eidolon still in trouble with the Carceris?"

"Eidolon and Wraith will be fine" Shade patted his BDU chest pocket and pulled out a pack of gum "They’d have risked a lot more to make sure you were safe"

So yes, they were still in trouble, and she felt guiltier than ever Thanks, Con I appreciate having these horrible feelings

She shouldn’t ask She really shouldn’t The fact that her brothers hadn’t n But then, she’d never been one to obey signs or take hints "What about Con?" she blurted, her heart pounding wildly, because at this point, she needed to let hio back to her den and back to her life, and he’d go back to being a para with his dhampire clan stuff

But she really, really couldn’t bear the thought of sleeping with so alone Shade’s expression shuttered, and her lungs struggled to take in a breath "What about hi?"

"No" Shade revealed nothing in his voice or his eyes, but Lore had a tell when he was nervous, and the way his left pinky flexed totally gave hirowled "And don’t BS lanced at each other, and after a little shuffling of their feet, Lore said, "He left for Scotland" "He’s not co back," Shade said "He quit"

"Oh ainst her ribs "He wouldn’t quit He loves it here" "Dunno what to tell you His clan will perforht that’ll bind him to them"

"No" Her dazed mind refused to believe he’d leave the hospital Sure, she’d planned to stay away from here, but so that if she did coether, he’d be here "I’ll go to him Talk him out of it" And juhed, "it’s too dangerous"

"I don’t care about ured that out by now--"

"I know" Her voice was soft, but fir medic voice she’d somehow learned "But I really can take care of myself"

"But Idess can’t," Lore said, and then he winced, closed his eyes as if he just realized what he’d said

"What? What do youon?" Lore and Shade exchanged glances, and she wanted to screairl te her like she was a delicate tot "I swear, I’ tweeting finches for a year Now tell ured he was picturing her trying to slap doo demons ere twice her size, but Lore didn’t appear so amused Probably because he knew she could do it

She shoved to her feet "Well?"