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"Feck’s sake," Brigid said "Anne’s better than either of you at keepingbelow, Anne?"
Anne paused and thought about it Brigid would be er to her They would just have to stick together And Anne could keep her friend fro in the close quarters even better than Carwyn could Murphy would be able to, as well, but he was also the only one who ht be able to decipher any clues that Jean or his people had left behind
"I agree with Brigid," Anne said "Murphy, you’ve got to search the offices The paperon’t make sense to any of the rest of us You’ll knohat to look for"
Carwyn slapped Murphy’s bare shoulder "I’e, I’ll follow theave a swift nod and pressed a quick kiss to Anne’s mouth
"Be careful," he said before he walked behind the bridge and began to cliid approached a sealed door
"Do you know anything about boats?" Brigid asked
Anne smiled "It’s been a while since I’ve been on one of these h"
Chapter Twenty-two
MURPHY FORCED HIMSELF TO REMEMBER that Anne was an imminently capable vampire as paired with one of his fiercest soldiers His worry h, because Carwyn slapped hiets easier, it doesn’t"
"Thank you That’s reassuring"
"She’s not a fierce woid It’s not her nature But Anne is smart They’ll be fine"
There were a few e, but the three hu were no rabbed one of the huht, shatterproof--and thus fairly vaerly put it on the table and grabbed a pencil, hoping the phone wasn’t password protected
He was in luck
The screen came to life with the slide of the pencil eraser Murphy put it on speaker and immediately called Ozzie
"Yeah, boss?"
"Have you heard from Terry’s people? Have they found Jean?"
"The house in Kensington was empty ’cept for a few huine they’re still looking If he’s disappeared, that don’t look good"
"No," he muttered, "it most certainly does not Oz, I’ll keep this phone close Call when you hear anything"
"Will do"
If Jean had abandoned the house in Kensington, he could be co back to the ship Or he could have other properties in London that Terry didn’t know about Terry and Jean had been doing business for over one hundred years He likely had a hundred bolt-holes and backup plans