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"You didn’t have to yield" He’d looked Carasn’t even bleeding Murphy had barely broken the skin

Carwyn gave hi better?"

"Not hardly"

Murphy could hear the other va, but Caraved theant," Carwyn said "And you are But you took on the responsibility of this tohen you were hardly rabbed the reins froo"

"I wanted this city and I took it," Murphy said, still staring at the ceiling "Don’t try to hs on you as it does says everything about your character"

He let out a breath "I’ry"

"You should be"

Murphy finally turned his head to look at him The old vampire’s blue eyes were ancient, the usual joviality stripped bare Murphy understood why so many were drawn to him He was as solid as the earth he dreer from In that moment, Murphy didn’t feel like the vampire who led a city and a multinational corporation He felt like a boy

"What do I do?" he asked Carwyn

"You go to London You let Deirdre and Tos here," Carwyn said, his blue eyes holding icy rage "We find out who is doing these terrible things--"

"And we end the his hand out "I will end the at Toid, he nodded "I know"

A knock caed a look as Murphy grabbed his shirt to wipe the blood away

"Answer it," he said "They wouldn’t knock if it wasn’t an eht the words a ht

"Garvey… body Barely recognized… fire"

MURPHY ed in the dark river before he screae The h his hair and brushing his face A longing mother, she tried to soothe

He would not be soothed

Andrew Garvey’s body hadn’t been du man didn’t want to attract hue? Simple frustration that their shipment and boat had been taken? Whoever killed the hu to be squashed He wasn’t a person but an exa in the skip behind Murphy’s nearehouse hadn’t been a water vampire, it was possible there would have been little left to identify Garvey in the end