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"Then why the hell did you just say--?"

"Listen!" The young man took a deep breath and closed his eyes "Natalie, what you just saas… awful We like to think that kind of stuff never happens, but--"

"Luis!" Panic welled up and her eyes darted around the car She had to get out of there At any et ot away"

"I can’t It’s not safe Will you just listen?"

"It’s not safe in here I can tell you’re nored on the door handle, but it was locked again "You have to help erous Leave with ets back I know people who can help you You don’t have to--"

"It’s not like that!"

She stopped tugging on the door and oing on"

"I’lanced out the , but there was still no sign of anyone approaching the car "You have to stay here You have to let him protect you"

"Protect me? Hiht?"

"Yeah?" What the hell did that have to do with vas and monsters naht? Things hu toto say "There are bad people everywhere, Luis, but--"

"And there are bad vaular world in uys? Ivan? Tio? They’re the bad guys The really bad guys But Baojia? He’s a good guy"

She could hear the sincerity in Luis’s voice Natalie had a pretty good sense of when so to her, and Luis wasn’t At least, he didn’t believe he was