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"Why is George Dumas asleep on your couch?" Soul asked, still in the foyer, looking over her shoulder

"It’s a long story," Eli said,his weapons disappear "We have steak I can cook one under the broiler for you and feed one raw to the dog"

We could hear the growl fro insult

"If you don’t want him to pee in your boots, you’d better be careful," I said

"It seeave us an e the table "If you have an extra potato baked, I’d rather have that, though I need to change first"

"You can’t just o?"

"No," Soul said prirunted "So why is a olf here without his executioner?" Werewolves, even one touched by an angel, as this one had been, were always accorindyloould kill the the were-taint

Her voice soft, Soul said, "Pea is in-country And there was no one else to take Brute"

I blinked "Oh Of course" I turned away In-country was the word Rick had used when I sent hiirlfriend Ask a dumb question

"Yes," Soul said "Also, Brute’s noseIf you’ll excuse , his eyes carefully--very carefully--not staring at Soul’s cleavage or the way her body looked, with the wet clothes plastered to her as she made her way up to her roo off in the Kid’s manners

Eli and I went back to the kitchen where I nuked my untouched cold potato and lined up condis to serve her salad, and set a raw steak on a plate on the floor Faster than I could change--and I changed quick--Soul was back, wearing jeans and a lightweight sweater, her hair braided in a silver plait down her back to dry

"When we go after the hatchling?" I asked, picking up the conversation where we had dropped it

"She is a powerful weapon when being ridden As a PsyLED special agent, I cannot leave her in Peregrinus’ hands And she is one ofI will not leave her in his hands"

As if orked and lived together for years, ent back to eating, filling Soul in on the most recent events It took so hatchling and the vamps who took her Some of the questions we could answer, and some were so off the wall I had no idea Like, "How old is she? How did she first find you? Has she ever talked to you?" And my personal favorite, "What do the Mithrans who took her want?"

So far as I could tell, they wanted everything, but I said, "They came prepared with a crystal and some kind of lasso to capture an arcenciel Why would so?"