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"No, Iin the room with him!" Bobby shouted plaintively at Milo "Tell her to hurry and get down here! We’ve gotta do so you alone to deal with her," Milo told Bobby, and I really wished I understood as happening or theon?" I asked

"Jane is down here, and she looks like a corpse! For real! Not like a zo," Milo said "She looks really, really terrible, and she just went into the backrooo after her and leave Bobby alone, so you need to get down here If she doesn’t get out of here tonight, she’s probably never getting out of here"

"This better not be soet me to come out!" I said, but deep down, I kneasn’t Both Milo and Bobby sounded genuinely frazzled, and I hadn’t been doing enough to get her to stop being a bloodwhore

"I would never lie about so like this!" Milo yelled, and he wouldn’t I don’t think he ever lied about anything

"Fine! I’ll be there as soon as I can! Wait forup the phone Iiant flaw in my plan: I didn’t kno to drive

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I realized that there was so and kne to drive "Ezra!"

"Yes?" Ezra answered, and I walked to the end of the hall so I could see hi is the matter?"

"Milo’s at a club, and Jane’s there She’s a bloodwhore, and he says she’s in really bad shape I need to get her before so drive me down there?"

"Absolutely" Ezra hit a button on the co out to the clubs tonight, and Bobby was looking quite well, so I told the fun," I said sourly as he o out on Halloween," Ezra se "I haven’t done that in years" He noticed his teasing falling flat on et your friend out of there" I nodded and followed him out to his Lexus "And Jack will come home He does love you very much"

"I know," I lied "I just wish I knehere he was"

"He’ll turn up soon," Ezra assured me "He’s not the kind to stray very far"