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"Sort of, yeah" I held out ht the storiesi a hand into his pocket and pulled out a thumb drive, which he slapped down onthe bastard, Shaun"

"I know" I plucked a sheet of paper from the printer and held it out to him "Here’s the latest from the lab of Dr Abbey, crazy-ass scientist who knows more about the structure of Kellis-Amberlee than anybody else I’ve ever s to keep you awake at night"

Mahir took the paper wordlessly and started to read I took advantage of the lull and uncapped the thu it into an open USB port It checked out clean, so I started downloading Dr Abbey’s eet the information to the GPS when the tie Are you leaving the bike?

"I’ll follow the van," I replied, disengaging the thumb drive It was another cold equation, and one that I liked just as little as I’d liked the first one The her the odds were that soet hold of it The van would be better ar The only person on the bike would be me, and I…

I wasn’t quite at the end of , I wasn’t sure howto be true If only one vehicle could reach Dr Abbey’s safely, it wasn’t going to be mine I was oddly okay with that

Thatwhat I think you’re thinking

"Or what? You’ll haunt onna have to do better than that"

George’s rebuttal was cut shkeds Mahir raised his head and stared atout like bruises against his suddenly pale skin I’d thought he looked tired when he first cahting condition We’d been running for too long I wasn’t the only one running out of go

"Good lord, Shaun," he said His voice was shaking Not for the first tie had lived--at least she could have given hiht but they’d take a few of the bastards out with them I didn’t even knohere to start "Is this woman serious?"

"I don’t think she’s ever not serious I also don’t think she’s ever wrong where Kellis-Amberlee is concerned She’s the one who collected erous But I think she’s right"

"But I…" He stopped, licking his lips nervously before he said, "If she’s right, we can’t stay here"