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"You’re going to London with Anne and id nodded "I’ll get you the name of my man for ballistics, Dec"

"Thanks," he said before he looked at Murphy "And the ship?"

"Go through the usual channels Pay whoever we need to in order to id walked away, leaving Murphy alone with the one person in the world he wanted more than any other

The person who distrusted hi--"

"No, that’s bollocks, Anne I should have put a o after a huanization"

"He wasn’t in your organization"

"Fuck that He was I should have known"

He dropped her hand and walked away from the fire-blackened body and toward his car There was nothing else he could do that night He needed to take shelter, and he didn’t want to go to any of his homes Didn’t want to face any questions froot out and opened the back door for him just as Anne put her hand on his shoulder

"Patrick, please"

He stopped but didn’t turn "I can’t be polite tonight, Áine Leave me be"

She dropped her hand, and Murphy slid into the car, feeling the first ache in his bones that warned hi his , Ozzie"

Ozzie e protected cao to appease his human kin The leader of his clan kneho and what he was Didn’t like it but accepted it They were too superstitious to give him any problems Outside of his Traveller clan, his caravan was known only to him and Ozzie, as a distant kinsman It wasn’t hard to conceal Not even vampires were round had been torn up again when they pulled in Theabout, likely fro

"Oz"

"I’ll take care of it in the , sir Have a ith Old Keenan"

"The rubbish is one thing, but I won’t have the the children’s play set for scrap Make that clear"

"Yes, sir"