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"Nice outfit, Kat Little early to be in your pj’s, isn’t it?" he jokingly asked as he grabbed a beer froe

December tensed for a lasses for the about the ranch "I don’t know if it was fro pack, but thanks to an anonymous tip we found a bunch of bodies buried a few wood House"

Decehter as she stilled She didn’t look at Kat but out of the corner of her eye watched her stiffen too

"So you two did know about it?" Parker asked with one eyebrow raised When they didn’t respond, he shook his head and took another bite of chili "Good chili, Kat"

"What does this ed "We’re not sure Soot ties to a couple right-wing hate groups and they were all killed with the same knife Looks like whoever owns that property--or lived there--killed and disposed of theure out where the owner is, we don’t have h of relief As long as those deaths didn’t get tied to Liam’s pack and no one found out what had happened to Kat, she didn’t care

After her third bite, she put her spoon down again and pressed an unsteady hand to her stomach

Kat reached out for her "You okay? Is it the chili?"

Afraid to open hershe wouldn’t make it to her bathroom upstairs, she hurried to the one off the closest hallway She’d barely flipped the toilet seat up when she violently e seehtened in pain as she puked until finally she was just dry heaving

A knock on the door made her wince "You okay in there?" Parker asked

After shutting the lid, she grabbed soasped out even though she felt dizzy and unnaturally weak

Reaching up, she tried to grasp on to the back of the toilet for support Instead she knocked over the small vase on the back of it It tumbled to the tile and shattered

The door flew open Parker stood in the doorith Kat right behind hiain her focus

Her brother reached down and tried to help her up When he did, she pressed doith one hand to push herself up and was lass

"Ah," she cried out, and immediately withdrew her hand Her brother lifted her up until she was sitting on the closed lid

"Hold out your hand," he ordered softly

Still feeling woozy, she didn’t fight hirab a broo

With each tiny shard he pulled out, she winced Trickles of blood rolled across her open palotten them all out, he stretched her hand out toward the sink "I’et the blood and any tiny slivers off"

"Okay" As the water rushed over her, she stared in confusion as the blood washed away Shaking her head, she blinked and looked at her hand "Do you see that?" There was nothing there No puncture marks or cuts It was as if her hand had healed in seconds And it didn’t hurt anymore

Parker looked at her curiously "Did Lia her cheeks heat up, she shook her head "No…and let’s not even go there" She stared at her open palm "This is really weird" As she tried to think of what other options thereoff the toilet, she flipped it open again and just dry heaved into it Her throat and stomach ached, but she couldn’t stop