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In ain with the devil hiirl safe and sound I headed back to the here Lady Percival was on display, hoping sheabout access to the back room where she’d helped out when Lady Percival had been ht I looked for a door and there it was not ten feet down, blending into the wall--the outline of the seal, and then a sn marked private affixed to it

Jackpot!

I turned the handle and pushed into a large work storage room with more doors--one of which was marked toilet

"Brynne?!" I yelled her name and slammed my hand hard I tried the knob but it was locked

"I’els, it was her!

"Baby! Thank Christ" I tried the knob again "Let o!"

The door latch clicked and I wasted no tiirl I would have torn it off and thrown it if I’d had the ability

She stood there looking pale with her hand over herher forehead, in her beautiful periwinkle dress The ht now! Maybe forever I didn’t think I would ever forget how I felt in thisher, just about took me to my knees in thankfulness

"What’s going on with the fire alarm?" she asked

"Are you okay?" I wrapped my arms around her but she pressed a hand to my chest to keep a distance

"I just threw up, Ethan Don’t get too close" She kept one hand over her ods I re so close by I was in here bent over the toilet and then the alarotta go now! Not a fire but a borabbed her other hand and started pulling "Can you walk?"

Her face paled even further but she revived soot us the hell out of that building

Adrenaline has as to be thankful for, but the greatest thing of all was safe in my arms

What a cluster fk the last hours had been I rue of plans, I’d decided as soon as we got ho up to Solad to have us early and that the house would be open so we could get in whenever we arrived

Brynne was a bit harder nut to crack She didn’t feel well for one thing and then orried about the bos So far, there hadn’t been an explosion but the whole orized as a terrorist risk I would havethe bomb threat as a compulsory es on her h to seea sh for that, then he was too fking close to e either--just lyrics fro typed out with Brynne’s naet her out of the city a very easy one

I looked over at her sleeping in the front seat, her head tilted against the pillow she’d brought along I’d rushed her out of the city, and knew I’d have so to do later but thankfully she hadn’t been in aWe’d changed out of our fors, and hit the M-4 for our three hour drive to the coast

She stirred about two hours into the drive and then woke up with a direct question "So are you going to tell o in thefor weeks?"