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Having split froh with their plan of speaking to those who staffed the homes of the powerful and wealthy and cruel, Ashwini ran into the intensive care section of the hospital to find he’d beaten her there

“Where is she?” It ca; she’d received the call while at Guild HQ, giving Sara a progress report, had decided to leg it rather than try to negotiate the heavy traffic in a cab

“In a room down the hall” Janvier’s jacket was open over his black T-shirt, his scarf“This way”

She fell into step with him “Have you spoken to her?”

A shake of his head “The physicians are with her I think she’ll react better to a woman, in any case”

Painfully conscious of what Janvier didn’t say—the torture the woaze of the angel who stood guard beside the closed door at the end of the hall, wings of silver-blue pressed against the wall “You brought her here?”

“Yes,” Illiuolden eyes colder than she’d ever seen the, collapsed on the street”

“Jesus” Ashwini thought of the bitter cold, the ice “Hypothermia?”

“A hint of frostbite—I picked her up almost as soon as she was spotted”

Which meant she’d been dropped off soet herself help and attention Not, Ashwini thought, for her good, but because the sadistic e news It was eight now, so the victi work or heading out to dinner

“The tracks circled back to another street entrance,” Janvier said, answering the question she’d been about to ask

“Of course they did,” she muttered “Security cah any feeds they could find,” Janvier said “So far, nothing”

Ashwini girded her stomach “How bad?”

Illium had parted his lips to anshen the door was pulled open from the inside and a tall, thin vampire with sandy brown hair, and aristocratic features in a pale-skinned face stepped out He earing green scrubs, held a chart in one hand “She’s lost over half the blood in her body,” he said, shoving a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on its ends “However, that doesn’t explain her appearance I’ve never seen its like and I’ve been a physician for lifetiainst her skin, knew he had to be at least seven hundred years old “Is there anything you can tell us?”