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"I did," he replied shortly "You'll have those reports for ht should be no hardship for sos did that let u into an turned back to us "Cat Bones" He said our naize for theh I hadn't already eviscerated hireat to ain only because I knew he didn't want to touch it

He took it with the same faint pause he'd shown last tirip, but oh, it was tean swept out of Tate's office, trailing a cloud of aftershave and irritation behind hioing back with you later, Cat"

I glanced at Tate, who gave me a barely perceptible nod In truth, I was relieved that he didn't attean a hell of a lot an was here because Uncle Sae of an operation that hunted and concealed evidence of the undead If so, Madigan would waste a lot of taxpayer dollars by scrutinizing this operation only to co replacement for Don His record was spotless, so I had no fear of Madigan's unearthing any skeletons in Tate's closet-real or ladhis way to the eternal doorway for the other side If Madigan had ahere, Don could alert us faster than anyone else I had faith in Tate, Dave, and Juan being able to get thean's dislike of the undead took aturn; but h as they were

And this wasn't a regular building that she could just bust through a wall to escape froainst their will I should know I designed it back when I was capturing va called Bra compound in undead blood, had kept several rievous injury Then Bones joined the operation, and Don got over his fear that raw va than Brah of his blood for Don to parcel out to injured team members as needed, and the vampire cells on the fourth sublevel had remained empty for years as a result

But that didn't ht and Madigan was here for other reasons than a routine evaluation

Or maybe I'd had so much shit happen lately that I assumed the worst about everyone nohether I had valid reason to or not I gave an pissed o that Don had had the sao that I'd thought the only good bloodsucker was a dead bloodsucker! Yes, Madigan's attitude screamed Suspicious Bureaucratic Bastard, but hopefully his spending some time with Tate, Juan, Dave, and my mother would make him realize there was es of classified murder reports

"So, what do you think of hione from his tone

"That he and I won't be BFFs," was all I said No need to say etting that vibe, too Maybe it's a good thing thatcircumstances are what they are"

By Tate's careful allusion to Don's condition, it was obvious that he, too, was taking no chances over our words being played back to Madigan later

I gave a concurring shrug "I suppose everything does happen for a reason"

Chapter Three

By the ti hootten back to our Blue Ridge house quicker if we'd flown the whole way, but it was less flashy to keep our helicopter at the local private airport Even though our nearest neighbor was over two dozen acres away, a helicopter co tended to attract a lot more notice than a car The lower our profile in our home area, the better

Once in our car, however, Bones and I could speak freely The first iteot sos, and I didn't an struck me as the type who'd consider it standard operational procedure to have listening and tracking devices planted on our chopper while Bones and I were at the compound Hell, when I first started with the team and everyone worried that I'd turn to the dark side, Don had bugged my vehicle and had me folloenty-four/seven It took h to drop the surveillance and wire taps Soer

"So what's it like in his ated up the winding roads "Murky He clearly suspects ainst the the exceptional , but guess that meant I'd underesti that theads past theate a vampire's ability to scent his emotions and that he despised Don The mere mention of your uncle's nahts"

"Don didn't seem too fond of him, either"

I'd have to ask my uncle about their history the next time I saw him Maybe it was as sih to start the Trojan War, after all Still, as long as Madigan kept his actions aboveboard, whatever had happened between hiht ht on only one of those counts

"He also deeply distrusts vauessed yourself," Bones added "Aside froh repetitions of 'how many chucks could a woodchuck chuck' to hed Maybe underneath Madigan's poave me hope Pride wasn't the world's worst flaw, and vampire prejudice could be overcome with time But the lack of a sense of humor was an insurle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true">