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"You OK?" he asked ed another bar stool to where I sat

"I'm fine," I told him as he sat down next tomy face intently

"I will be," I said resolutely "It's been a hectic feeeks and I'm still not sure how I feel about it all Not you," I added as his eyebrows lifted enquiringly "I know exactly how I feel about you But this whole father thing is a bit of a shock And Mark Poor Mark I should ask him what happened but I'm so afraid of the answer I knoful I can see it in his eyes"

"Mark is stronger than you think, est out of all of us Don't worry too much about him He'll be fine He has a very level-headed approach to the world And Hugo is a good man But you'll find that out for yourself You don't have to rush into anything with hio I nodded and s to be staying here?" I asked

"A feeeks,to be sooing to lie low for a while Hugo has a lot of information about Jack's operation, and we haven't decided what to do with it yet There are several bases re va for anything we do to re them up is no solution"

"But you blew the last lot up, Mark said"

"Yeah, we did, and that destroyed a lot of evidence, which is great, but the skeletons would still be there for the police to discover, and for the forensics experts to pore over Marcus tells me that the skeletons of the bloodfeeders are similar to humans, but also different The iron content ist worth his salt would pick up on that difference"

"So the world is going to find out about va what all of this roup of individuals exist who have different tissue composition to that of normal humans Whether they will uess"

"If they find one of those blood drinkers alive, they couldn't really miss the connection if they tried," I said dryly