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She was here

She was safe

She was mine

I felt all of that on a primal level as I forced myself to look for Delray I wanted to talk to him as soon as possible, but his chair was empty

"Where is he?" I asked

"He left"

"What?"

I whipped around to where Nate had been, but he was gone, too "Where’d Nate go?"

"He went to put the bats away"

A guttural growl caet aith this shitstoran, stop!" Taylor ran in front ofuntil her back was at the front door Then I reached up and held on to her ar her up and out of the way

"I an I know you’re worried about me"

"Do you?"

"Yes" She softened her voice "But he won’t hurt you"

"He already did" I touched the cut on her face Blood had seeped froer

Her hand went to her face and touched the cut She hissed as soon as she made contact "I have no idea when that happened"