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So I thought about that a while too About not being in charge, notbackup all the ti yes" Butabout this for a long tiet sixty percent," I said "You two split forty I handle all legal matters, with your input Salaries to be decided, cos, and expenses to be discussed at a later date And you can stay withas you like"

"Done," Eli said, as if the division of the company that had recently beenbefore heht and kinda weird I realized I was happy Content For all intents and purposes, I had just sold forty percent of my company And my life And I was happy about it A small smile started and I let it take over my mouth all by itself

We made it halfway back to Eso like that? The one with Hieronymus, not the one with me"

"Pretty much"

"How hed under my breath "Not all of it"

"Good Because thattailed"

"Crap" I looked over my shoulder and saw three cars in the distance "Which one?"

"All of them"

CHAPTER 5

Four Dead Va weapons, and wished I had been paranoid enough to bring the M4 I didn’t place the guns on the seat, but reholstered the, I didn’t want the around the interior "What do you have with you?" I asked

"A dozen flashbangs, which are essentially useless in open space Six frags, and in the back enough nine mil and 380 ammo to kill off a small tribe of olves or va followed by hus You want to call it in?"

"If we call in the cops and the people behind us are drunken rednecks out for a little fun at the vaerous in a town full of vamps It azines into my pockets and crawled over the seat back There was afull of boxes Heavy boxes As into my pockets and waistband, but I didn’t take any boxes of bullets Chances were, if we needed to reload the azines we had on us, we’d already be drained

"And if it’s Naturaleza vamps out for a little blood at the vaht, "we’ll look dead"

"True You want me to call it in?" I asked

"No There’s an open field a mile ahead with a shed full of hay If we can make that, we can make a stand from the woods or the shed Decide later how serious our tail is"

"Works forabout The shed was at the back of the field, about a hundred yards off the road, near a stand of trees A shed full of hay wasbullets So were trees Options were nice to have

My foot hit so on the floorboard I bent and lifted it into the faint light "Did you know there’s a shotgun back here?"

"Huh I wondered where that thing had got to"

"Yeah Mine runs and hides too What’s it loaded with?"

"Your rounds More in the a"