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The opportunity to take the girl in had seeood to be true It still did, soh this six- period, the adoption would be final and Mary could take a deep breath At least there were no relatives coh Bitty had talked initially about so a brother or disclosed anything about any blood relations, either during intake or in subsequent therapy sessions Notices posted on closed Facebook and Yahoo groups had yielded nothing so far

God willing, it would stay that way

On that note, Mary signed in to the co in her ribs, a sick flush bloo in her body As social media aficionados went, she was below aht, but only once a night, she hopped onto Facebook

And prayed she found nothing

The FB group she checked was one specifically devoted to vampires, its closed roster restricted to members of the species Created by V after the raids, house was an opportunity for folks to connect about anything froe sales

Scanning the posts in the last twenty-four hours, she exhaled in a rush Not at thing

The relief made her office spin around--at least until she went to check the Yahoo group Recipe for Crock-Pot Knitting group having a et a co

"Thank you, God," she whispered as she put another small check on her wall calendar

Almost to the end of December, which meant they were nearly thole months down By May? They could move forward

As her heart shifted out of tachycardia, she wondered how in the hell she was going to face this IT gauntlet another hundred and thirty tiood neas that she was able to stick to this once-and-only-once-a-night check Otherwise she’d be on her dah, to whoever else hts in blood relations was serious business, and with no modern precedents in the vampire race to follow, she, Marissa, as head of Safe Place, Wrath, the Blind King, and Saxton, the King’s head counsel, had had to devise a procedure that provided an adequate notice period

E periods, however, and le back the speed of their hearts