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When he was finished, he scrubbed his hands through his hair and slu on us, and soon enough, there was a knock on the

It was Anyan, in full co As soon as Ryu had the n, he was barking orders

"I’ Jane around Grae Now"

"Anyan, this is hest wasn’t having any

"Fine Then I’ll take her Get out We’ll reconvene at the Wethersby house, two hours"

Ryu glared, clearly torn Eventually, he replied by rolling up hisand starting the car

I put my hand on his sleeve I did really need a swi like I was a burden

"Ryu, we don’t have to--"

He shook his head angrily "No," he interrupted "Anyan’s right"

I droppedI could say

"He’s always fucking right," Ryu added, and I wondered, once again, what had happened to hest so much

Since ere already in Southie, Ryu took me to Carson Beach After a brief but fierce swiain I was also very salty, but I had no tio home for a shower before we left to catch up with the others

Our impatience on the drive over to Felicia Wethersby’s apartment was palpable This was our first real lead in a while, the first new connection It would also, hopefully, link as going on in Chicago and the murders that had taken place here in Boston After all, if her boss, Dr Donovan, had straddled both worlds, Felicia ht have, too

Felicia lived in Davis Square, on the other side of the Charles River, in a little walk-up apartment eerily similar to Tally Bender’s I fervently hoped there was no launching of partially creht’s activities

"Stay close, Jane," Ryu admonished, as he popped the locks of the BMW For obvious reasons, there was no longer any talk ofwith the car

Ryu and I walked up the steps to Felicia’s apartical probes and shields hirling around my lover while I held our fortifications steady I could feel our co the hairs on ust around us

He passed his hands over the door’s dead bolts and they clicked open I shook ain that what hus aroundlocks barely slowed the, Caleb pulled up down the street with the SUV Obviously, with my swim break, they should totally have been able to beat us to Felicia’s Being considerate of his out-of-town guests, however, the satyr oat-man, and now Ryu and I would be the first people in the apartment, in the unlikely case that Felicia was at home