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The Drafter Kim Harrison 15100K 2023-08-31

"Allen?" she called, and the silence was thick with the unknown Lifting her chin, she glared at the blond uys are all dicks Just lethard, Silas felt behind hiry for the feel of it in her grip "Jack is here?" Silas said, his voice thick onder

"You uy? Are you blind!" Peri exclai at the man

"Oh, babe, this is so bad for your asthma I don’t think you should kill Silas anymore," the man said, and Peri’s breath came in a heave She knew his voice She knew it!

"I’m so sorry, Peri," Silas said as if he’d never tried to kill her, never laid a hand on her "Opti messed with your mind That’s not a real person It’s a hallucination I stabilized to keep you fro Jack’s death"

"Excuse ers splayed over his Ar "Allen?" she called, and the woman who had dropped Silas off rushed into the auditoriu wo A thinto catch her before she e "Thank God you’re here!" she called, a faint southern accent coh

"Stay back!" Silas warned, and the wohtened halt "She doesn’t reht, but the woone sad, and Silas’s hand slowly dropped when theher pulled Taf back a few steps

"Where’s Allen?" Silas asked, looking nervous

I as if she liked the fact "The car is running Are we taking her with us?"

Jack swung his head up, alar you do," Peri threatened, and the thin erously in his front pocket, and Peri eyed it, wanting it badly

Silas glanced at his watch "No Opti tagged her"

"Opti doesn’t chip their personnel like dogs," Peri said indignantly, and the guy in dreadlocks chuckled "What’s so funny, Sherlock?"

"That’s exactly what you said the first time"