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"I'll be right here," she reassured ain "Do you want hts out loud?"

"Out loud please," I mumbled I knew her voice would keep inable horrors it had been conjuring up for the past few hours, and I was reluctant to go there It was bad enough not knoas happening thousands ofover a selection of worst-possible-scenarios was about a million tihts to wander to Angus, and those few glorious hours we had shared before Mark had been abducted I smiled as I re skin of his chest, and how it felt beneath ers, and how it tasted

Eventually the us

I s the few dishes away after lunch Fergus had used his te re over equipment Oliver had helped for the first few seconds, but then he'd becoanised father had stored side by side with ladles and bread knives in one of the capacious drawers that were dotted around the kitchen When the vae Oliver actually had four knives balanced on their tips along his forear at me in triumph A second later those knives were back in the drawer Some of them anyway

"I can sense him too," Oliver spoke in a low voice "He's a couple of hundredhow to approach this place without getting killed Obviously not an idiot, then Hefor him"

"I think he does," I said softly "He's cautious, but I don't sense any hostility towards us Soet that too," said Oliver, frowning "I think he wants our help"

"We should talk to hiuns, so we don't want to startle hiain"

"You're preaching to the converted, o out with our hands in the air just to shoe're not armed"

"Then you should probably try to hide those two a bit better," I suggested wryly, indicating the knives he'd jammed into a couple of loops that decorated the leather belt around his waist