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"Would you please start the IV?" I asked "I’ her back fro if he let ain "I’ly "I’ Katia--or rather, Katia’s lifeless body--set up with a transfusion, I sent Kirsten a quick text explaining that ould probably need to allow Allison Luther access to LA for a couple of days She returned the text i to make sure Dashiell and Will were on board That surprised me a little, but if Kirsten had ht be really intense, but she was also sort of reassuring If she was there to help, things would be better

That done, I took Shadow out back and used the hose to rinse off the worst of the blood She hated this process, but I proe, so she bore it with onlyuntil I turned off the hose and then shaking her body a foot away fro a line of water off rin

Afterent into the kitchen, where I delivered the promised steak As Shadow inhaled her ether sandwiches It was half past two, and Jesse and I hadn’t eaten anything since our donut breakfast We hadn’t wanted to hit a drive-thru while we had a bargest and a dead body in the backseat For some reason

Jesse found me aover to watch me "No mayo on mine," he said

"I reonna tell uys came fro out to snake the first finished sandwich Atnoise, so I tossed her soht out of the air with a snap that ry at the ?" I said

"Right The guy in the garage had a tattoo, here"--he touched his breastbone above his heart--"I sahen his shirt got twisted after he fell It was sort of a stylized D It looked like MC ink"

I raiseda bite of my sandwich "Master and Coe?"

He made a face atI just can’t re to keep the skepticism out of my voice "You think bikers are behind this?"

"No," he said with great patience, "I think whoever’s behind this is paying the MC for muscle And if Shadow hadn’t been with us, it probably would have worked out for theue with that--Shadow had definitely saved our lives

I considered his theory while we finished the first sandwiches and startedmore My life is so focused on supernatural criet there are so many classes of human criminals out there I didn’t know much about bikers, other than what you see on TV shows And that was just it, I realized--"biker gang" felt like so you saw on television, not actual, flesh-and-blood people you ain, I worked for vampires and olves, so as I to talk about plausibility?

Meanwhile, voluntarily bringing humans into an Old World matter seemed ludicrous to me, but maybe that was exactly why Katia and her va, and one I had no defense against I have no special healing skills, and I’m not a soldier like Lex Even when I use knives and the Taser, I’ on the idea thathuman, and will be a little disoriented

"Okay, so, if the MC really is trying to kill estured around the house

Unfortunately, Eli chose that moment to walk into the kitchen "Say what now?" he de wants to kill you?"

"See?" Jesse said to me "He knohat MC means" I tossed a slice of bread at him Jesse ducked, and Shadow pounced on it like a cat

"To answer your question," Jesse said loftily, "who else knows you live here?"