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Once there, she headed out onto the street “So, details?”

“Yeah, not so much,” Abel said “Cops are out there No one’s quite sure what’s happening, but if you think it’s ours, call n someone—your Tower contract takes priority Here’s the street” He read it out

“Got it,” she said, hailing a cab and sliding in “I’ll call you after I’ve had a look at the scene”

The cabbie began to drive “Hunting?”

She nodded and gave hied as a hunter, because for months after the abduction, she hadn’t been “Fast as you can”

The cabbie’s eyes flicked to the rearview ain “Hey, aren’t you that hunter that was ut twisted “Yes”

There was lurid speculation in the eyes in the mirror this time “I heard you came into the hospital covered in va in its power to ta they could do about the non-Guild personnel involved in her recovery Add in the nuo to find out if the bastards who’d taken her had left her with anything other than bruises, bites, a body on the edge of starvation, and more than a few fractured bones as well as a number of internal injuries, and she’d been seen at her weakest by dozens of people

Most of those people had been good and kind So eyes, his lips half parted, threatened to shove her back into the pit, those ugly, probing hands violating her until there was nothing left A one silent A o, she hadn’t shot bullets into two of her attackers “Vaer carefully over the blade she’d pulled frorow back when you cut them off Humans, unfortunately, don’t have that ability”

He whi down his temples when they arrived at her destination, and he couldn’t even get the words out to ask for the fare Swiping her credit card, she paid and got out

Never again would anyone drag her into the dark

17

“Nicholas!”

Glancing up at the sound of her na black cop with distinctive salt-and-pepper stubble that appeared to be a per worked a case with him a couple of years back, one of the rare few times she’d been put on a situation in Manhattan “What do you have?”

“This” He ducked under the barrier of cri half on, half off the sidewalk Lifting away the tarp that covered the victiot attacked by a dog” The young nawed on