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Allthe paperwork stacked on each body I was so engrossed--or so desperate to get Eet out of there--that I didn’t hear so the Gross Anatomy book What I did hear was the heavy

My heart locked in my throat, but I refused to let myself panic I casually walked up to the door, certain that the giant refrigerator people had seen all the locked-in-the-freezer episodes as well, and had created some sort of snazzy trapdoor or inside lock pop

Apparently, refrigerator people are not TV watchers

I dug into e and yanked out my cell phone I wasn’t entirely sure whom I’d call to rescue me from a walk-in freezer filled with people-sicles, but Vlad was usually good for the occasional rescue I wrapped my ar happened

"No bars!" I groaned I started to pace, staring down at e a few cheery bars popped up If I held the phone above h to support a phone call

I pressed myself as far back as I could, then eyed the stackable body shelves If I could just get a little higherI tentatively poked a foot on the edge of the loweret anybody on rinned down at my phone when it decided it couldsound of the undead co through me

I jumped from the cart and launched it backward I would like to say I barrel-rolled or did soh the air, ar to hold on to When I landed on the ces in each hand, the contents of each bag--and several others--pu round as I ju bloody murder

"Pike! PIKE! Get me out of here! Get me the fuck out of here! I’m stuck!"

It seemed to take eons for Pike to hearthe autopsy tables, relishing the way the room-temperature air burned at my frozen skin

I felt Pike’s eyes on me, curious, as I rubbed my arms and let the adrenaline drain from my body "Where were you?" I finally hissed, eyes narrowed

"I was outside Standing guard Just like you toldas I’d told him, but I wanted to "Why did you co forever, I had to pee, and then I heard you huffing and thu a little frisky with ol’ Reg there"

He grinned and I recoiled, disgusted "You’re a big ass"

"And you’re a big ol’ side of beef locking yourself in the deep freeze Did you find anything?"

"First of all, I didn’t lock myself in the freezer I shoved a book in the doorway so I wouldn’t get stuck"

Pikeall around for a book

"Someone filched the book and shut the door on h he didn’t look the least bit convinced "Is that so? Because I’ve been waiting out there," he said, jerking a thumb toward the hall "And I happen to know for a fact that no one cayou a little bit ee, but definitely not a liar"

The chill froh -filled e "Here’s our friend Emerson"

He laid her out on the slab and unzipped her I was surprised when a stab of e E Nicolette red-eyed and torn up over the death of her sister Either way, the body was just a shell--I knew that better than anyone But there was soed my arms across my chest "Look behind her left ear"

Pike did as he was told and I watched his finger slide over E"