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Alistair? August? The latter was putting an ars now to help turn him off the bed and put him into the wheelchair

"Get off me," Leander said, and stood "I’ herkept?"

"In my room," Emma said "Your brother had a cao?" I was shocked to hear her speak to hientleness

"Fastest way out," I said "The e cas from the suitcase--a pair of passports, an envelope, scarves and gloves and a hat--and stuffing them into the pockets of her lab coat "Go," she said "I’ll follow"

We ran Leander kept pace behind us, ly ill as he did The as just ahead, but there were footsteps, now, above our heads, the scuffle-run of soust hoisted himself up out of the"Here," he said to me, "help him up"

"Oh, for God’s sake," Leander said "Corasped her waist and lifted her high enough that August could pull her out onto the snowy ground Leander went next; I made a cradle with my hands and boosted him up and out

Footsteps on the stair, a different set of footsteps behind me Emma had her arms full of files; wordlessly, she handed me half the stack, and we passed them up to Holmes until her mother’s arms were free, and then I lifted her up to theand pushed her out, ainstme out of the basement, a voice behind me said my name

I didn’t have to look to knoas Alistair Holain, louder, a shout now, "James Watson," like there wasn’t a difference between eable, these idiot Watson men ere beaten up and outsmarted by the enemy, kidnapped and shoved out of cars by their friends, men who left their own families behind to find themselves in the thick of a family feud that would leave a trail of bodies by the tiain, approaching"You don’t knohat you’re doing Lucien’s h Hadrian He’ll know He needs to see Leander sick in that hospital bed He needs to see my wife debilitated in her room, unable to work He needs to see us at hisabout? That isn’t even what I saw--"

"Idiot boy The cameras aren’t omniscient I sedated the ‘doctor’ he sent, Gretchen Michaels, dressed her like my wife and put her in Emma’s bed I locked up Leander, like he demanded, but I had Emma tend to hiust hissed "Co Alistair was drawing closer to me, his eyes wild, and I said, "It’s crazy What this is is crazy Why did Mrs Hol to keep this up?"

"Hadrian and Phillipa are here, aren’t they" There was steel in his voice "Aren’t they, child"

"What are you planning--"

Alistair Holrabbed for his hands As he pulled

I kicked hiered backward

There was no time to process what I’d just done There wasn’t any up or down anyust replaced the , and Holmes was there with a piece of wood from the pile and a haripped her shoulders "Your father--"

"Not i off my hands "The car’s out front Help her--I don’t know about the Greystone guards, if they’re still on our side--"

Holive you so that will make you very sick In actuality You understand that"

His mouth twisted "I understand"

"Reet worse before it gets better You’ll speak to the police You’ll have them run tests at the hospital You’ll implicate Hadrian and Phillipa And then you’ll recover, and disappear My suggestion is you go to America Go see James" She lifted an eyebrow in my direction

"Of course," I told hiive hi he can take," she said "I’m a chemist, Jamie I mixed this erous to continue There’s a Dr Gretchen Michaels comatose in my bedroom Hadrian sent her here to oversee this whole operation, and she stayed long enough that I had to put Leander under for a night--but the next day, I slipped her enough of this coh likehis feeds I didn’t need him to worry I didn’t need anyone else to know"

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