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"Want my identification?" he asked silkily "Here it is" Then his eyes changed to glowing es slid out froth like ers

"Let us pass, or we'll leave, and you can explain to your boss that the visitors he expected had better things to do than have their tiuard who'd demanded our ID hesitated for a loaded s glea from Bones's teeth retracted, and his eyes bled back to their normal dark brown color

I putto need my driver's license after all

"Wise choice," Bones co behindthat he didn't like this No shit, I thought, but didn't say it fortohe'd run for years and ulti in a supernatural forues couldn't even see That had to be discoine

We went down the hallway toward the elevator, and I ued the differences since the last time I'd been here There used to be two busy offices in this section, but now the only sounds of activity were our steady footfalls on the linoleuot in the elevator, I pressed the button for the second sublevel, where the staff offices were located A poignant sense of deja vu washed over me as the shiny doors closed The last time I'd ridden this elevator on the way down, I had been rushing to Don's bedside to say goodbye Now he stood next to h his profile Life certainly had some bends in the road that I never would have anticipated

"Just so you know, if I see a bright light while I' for you to say a da the silence

The wryness in his toneyou the whole way," I assured hilad his sardonic sense of huhness of the past several weeks

The elevator stopped, and we got out I instinctively wanted to turn tohat used to be Don's office butinto Don's old office even though it was the largest and had a mini corave robbing to strip Don's things out of his office when he was still technically here, though only a handful of people in the building were aware of that My uncle hadn't wanted anyone to know of his new, ghostly status, but I'd refused to hide the information from any undead team members who could still see and talk to Don

Tate's door was ajar I went inside without knocking though I kneasn't alone Someone with a heartbeat was in there with hine for a va how stiff his posture was despite the fact that he was sitting The reason for his tenseness must be the tall, thinhair cut in the sa about his bearing suggested his hair was the only military influence he had His stance was too relaxed, his hands boasting calluses that I'd bet calance up revealed that he hadn't knoere here until I spoke, either, and while vampires were stealthy, I'd made no atteance in his stare once he recovered from his surprise overns accounted for such an i: a wealth of bad-ass undead abilities, or a person who firmly believed that his connections meant he could make his own rules Since Mr Cocky was human, that left the latter

"Youin a way that would look friendly to someone who didn't know an," Don coovernment contractor My uncle's voice sounded strained, al here?"

Chapter Two

I kept h it was host in the rooan couldn't hear him

"Cat CrawfieldRussell," I introducedto huhter than a piece of paper could ever ainstout from the shields Bones had erected around himself as soon as our helicopter landed He liked that I'd added the last na I needed to decide that I'd be Catherine Crawfield Russell froh I hadn't needed Don's reaction to deduce that Madigan was going to be a pain in my ass, years of strict farm-bred an looked at it for a fraction too long before shaking it His hesitancy revealed that Madigan had a prejudice against women or vampires, neither of which endeared him any further tocoing or thieving to survive the harsh circuhteenth-century London Not being endlessly drilled aboutyour elders likeinside the pockets of his leather coat, his half san took the hint He dropped his hand fro it to Bones The faintest expression of relief ainst vaan said to Tate with a jovialness that rang false "He did coaze flicked to Don Good God, could Madigan see hian had some psychic abilities

"With vampires, if you invite one spouse, the other is autohtly "That's an age-old rule, but I'll forgive you for not knowing it"

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