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The drugs had kicked in and lessened the throbbing in ment had been clouded when I decided to make the hazardous journey to the snack bar and su Everest I had no idea hoas going to get down

I could feel Reyes hovering, sticking to the shadows but looking on, watching, waiting I was just about to tell hiuy, Donovan, walked in like he owned the place Mafioso and the prince were right behind him I looked away in e Thank goodness I had a huge white bandage covering half my face Maybe he wouldn’t notice I’d hate for hi in

He fixed a curious gaze on me, then sucked in a soft hiss of breath

I covered my face with one hand, the other still i

"What the fuck happened to you?" he asked He moved a barstool aside for a better look "Did Blake do this?"

"Who?" I asked, peeking betweenbrace I had changed into shorts with Cookie’s help and she reattached the leg brace to keepApparently, the tendons had to heal first The bandages around the knife wound were visible from between the straps on the brace He put a hand on theainst the wall at my feet, hands in his pockets, a decidedly uncouy whose life you saved the other night"

"Oh, no" I closed "

"Kind of hard on yourself, aren’t you?"

"How’s Arteret suffusing the air The saone"

My h death for a while I breathed deeply before saying, "I’uy?"

"Who, Blake? He wised up and went to the police"

"I would have, too, if you had been looking forreatest ease, he tuggedon the bar, her than his, and I looked down He was quite handsome for a scruffy biker sort Of course, scruffy biker sorts were exactlyhere?" I asked

He’d kept the fingers of one hand laced withinout of his pocket "I brought you a key"

I blinked in surprise when he placed it in my palm "A key to what?"

The prince spoke up, a bitterness in his voice "To the asylulowering at his cohort, "you can go in through the front doors No h s"

"You’re ruining everything," the prince said