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Maybe whoever was behind the creatures attacking Mrs Oswald got really annoyed at Eduardo’s interference and had the ghouls kidnap or kill him? But that would ihouls Or maybe knew someone who could and that sohouls, ould you even care about some cats?
I blew the air out of my mouth All this wild speculation was just that--speculation Until we found some evidence, all my outlandish theories orthless
Ahead Curran and Derek turned left on Valley View Road I followed Small residential houses lined the street, couched in trees and brush It looked like a relatively quiet neighborhood No neighborhood was completely safe in post-Shift Atlanta, but this was one of the more stable ones And as far as I knew, Eduardo had no connection to it besides the rando more and more convoluted Convoluted wasn’therself in front of a blade to protect a pregnant Desandra My ht up a recollection of Eduardo knocked out cold and covered in his blood He’d tried to keep aDoolittle and Jie and Eduardo had suffered enough They’d earned their happiness I wanted to put theether and see them happy I wanted them to marry and have cute babies
Where the hell are you, Eduardo? What have you gotten yourself into?
We turned left onto Ashford Dunwoody Road The remnants of a Walmart came into view on the left Curran and Derek veered toward it The three hundred yards between me and the Walmart looked like someone had taken a blender to a warehouse: sharp chunks of concrete littered the ground, bound together by twisted lass, dull with dirt, glittered here and there, catching a randoht as well just jump out and slicethe debris The ghouls ered there
Curran tensed, his whole body coh concrete boulder He landed light and straightened, his gaze fixed on the cru-box store His broad shoulders and the line of his back curved slightly The wind pulled on his sweats, revealing a glimpse of his hard body, muscles ready to launch him at some unseen threat in an instant That potential poas like aby, I would’ve stopped to get a second look, trying to figure out who that scary hot bastard was
I would go hoht Go me
Okay There was so at hi it while sitting in theIf another vehicle caet to experience the fun and excitement of a head-on collision I pulled the car to the curb It was a consequence of the blood loss Sure That was it
Derek did a one-eighty and ran past ht up with hiain I eased off the brake Meadow Lane RoadA ruined parking garage loomed on our left, half-hidden behind pines Curran and Derek ducked into it I parked the Jeep and went down the slope after thee stretched before looht and left sides of the garage, growing denser toward the back, where the ceiling of the structure had caved in Three cars, pinned in place by the crushing weight of concrete, rusted quietly in the far left corner Next to them Curran waited Derek crouched by him In front of them a fissure split the concrete wall Froht feet tall and three feet wide
Of course Why wouldn’t it be a terrible dark pit? Just once I would like it to be a breezy path through soed to them Derek pivoted on his feet toward me "The trail leads in there"
No, it doesn’t "Okay"
Derek ducked into the gap I looked after hi into a tunnel dug in soil, angling down A cold, dank odor washed over htened My back brushed against his chest I didn’t want to go down into that hole I would do alo down there
"Baby?" Curran asked
"Yes?"
Right now Eduardo could be down there, waiting for help I stepped into the gap and startedI just had to put one foot in front of the other and not think about thousands of pounds of soil and rock that would bury me alive if it collapsed