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"No idea," Brigid said absently as Natalie steered the car through light traffic "We’re going to the Mexican border, right? And why there?"

"The earth vampire Baojia and I spoke to out in the desert said trucks were du the bodies, but the victi froo to Otay Mesa It’s the third busiest port of entry between the US and Mexico Tons of traffic And I know a few people ork there"

"You’re a newspaper reporter, then?" Brigid asked "Very cool I was horrible at writing in university"

"Brigid was studying to be a cri Now she does security for the va, we’ll call it"

It felt weird to have them in the backseat Natalie felt like a chauffeur She was reo What would happen to hi for Ernesto? What would happen to Baojia’s things? Did he own his house in San Diego? Suddenly, her stomach dropped Would he be able to ht when this was all over?

Beatrice piped up fro"

Natalie cleared her throat "I’ out of your chest," Brigid said "And you smell of nerves"

"God!" Her breath exploded "Is it always like this with you people? You can s Baojia never--"

"He probably doesn’t mention that stuff because he knows it row up around our sort tend to be jittery"

She bit back an angry retort, feeling like a fish out of water She felt a hand patting her shoulder froreat, Nat And the good thing is, Baojia’s not so old he doesn’t remember what it’s like to be hu fine wasn’t really an option at this point She ht not have super powers or coure out so to live in this crazy neorld

Brigid asked, "So tell me more about this Ivan fellow Your man’s quite sure he’s the one behind this?"

"Baojia said that the waitresses at the club sranate Very hard to resist"

"Yep" Brigid sighed "That sounds like Elixir Poor things They’re dying and they don’t even know it"

By the ti nervous about the dawn again It had to be al and it had taken theet there She’d already called her contact at Custo, but Natalie was still worried about the sun

"Are we going to have enough time?"