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"Like I said, we need to lie low," E I’m here We’re here"

Joe shifted and leaned heavily on the bar, facing the doorway "The guild knows you’re in town Which means everyone else knows you’re in town They knoe’re friends frolanced at me "A few of your old friends told ot another glance--"you won’t be wanting to"

"That’s got nothing to do with otten the reason they were being held in the first place

Eht, patterns, and texture flowered over our touch and drifted up our aric I’d seen before More nuanced even than Emery’s More beautiful

I watched in fascination, tickled where the wisps and strands touched me A smile spread over my lips, and this ti back at me, a dark shadow across his beautiful blue eyes

"Talk about buzzkill," I ic

"I can feel that," Joe said "You had better do soet you found out"

"I know," E his sizable frame flexed In contrast, I was as loose as I’d ever felt, relaxed and open to ical tune whisper to uild etting bad, man" Joe shook his head and shifted uncomfortably "But as it pertains to you, that you took out three ether," Joe said He took a step back and a sheen of"That your htier than when you lived in tohich see right now And that souild office so quiet about it"

"I found the office and broke in I didn’t kill anyone You know me I don’t want to take down any innocents"

Joe snickered, but there was no hues’ Guild--yeah, sure"

"Are Roger’s people looking for me?" E the sound of a scuffed shoe near the doorway I tried to lean back and see, but Euy with long arms held a little away from his muscular body, perhaps out of necessity, crossed to the other side of the bar His gaze was on Joe, his pompous strut ridiculous

"It’s like a -ticket item"

"Bear shifters" Joe crossed his arhts out of anyone"

I widened one Then I turned aze to Joe "Are you a shifter, too?"

He frowned at me "Yeah Why, what’d he tell you?" Joe jerked his head at E as a sheltered huo," Eht it possible with someone like her, but… Well, you’d have to meet her mother"

"Save yourself the headache" I turnedto loosen the hold "What do you turn into?"