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"Heart," I said

"You asped "I have a heart Her naainst ht here with me, hand in hand – or ventricle in ventricle – through thick and thin, day in and day out Otherwise, I’d be dead"

"Your point being?"

"Heart Theabout this chick who picks up this guy and has sex with him He sees her later with a kid and the kid has his eyes The chick explains that she just needed his sperm Those weren’t the exact words, but apparently, her husband couldn’t get her pregtastic, so she went out and seduced a guy just to get knocked up Maybe it’s the sa with Marika?"

He stuffed his phone into his pocket "Maybe"

"I mean, you said she’d just coht and then leave There was no real relationship, right?"

One shoulder went up in a halfhearted shrug

"Maybe she just wanted a baby daddy" I looked toward the building, growing more impatient by the second They’d been in there awhile "You need to call Reyes," I said, but thefroainst my restraint

"What?" Garrett said in alarasped, then ran for the gate

Reyes had propped the front door open, too, and I rocketed through it and flen the stairs and to the kitchen I ca halt in front of Reyes, the Dealer, and Strawberry She glanced around the room wildly, her face in shock as she tried to s The other two looked froain until they noticedtoward me, his expression not pleasant in the least "What the fk are you doing in here?"

I blinked, taking in the scene with a mixture of shock and awe It was clean Sterile, in fact Not a drop of blood anywhere Not a body Not a speck of dirt out of place "What the hell?" I asked, turning in a full circle

"There’s nothing here," the Dealer said "But the guy’s shit is still in there" He nodded toward the freezer

Reyes took round

"Where did he go? Where did all the blood go?"

"There isn’t any, but the scent is still strong" The Dealer inhaled through his nose "I can smell it Blood A lot of it"