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"And the Anasso has agreed to this plan?"

"He requested that I deal with Regan, and that’s what I’ht the Anasso had any say over Regan A dangerous, perhaps fatal, sensation "Noill you help us or not?"

There was a beat as Tane weighed the pleasure of battling a vaainst the certain punishged

"Get your woan wasn’t happy as she allowed Jagr to lead her into the cru to do with the stench of rotting mattresses that had been piled into what once had been a front lobby Or the plaster that cruht of stairs to a basement that, frankly, was creepy as hell

The small, cramped rooms they passed by, as well as the broken canes and walkers shoved in a storage room, pointed toward an abandoned old folks’ hoo faded into oblivion

Or y vah the moldy darkness

Oh, Tane was olden planes, and honey eyes

Yu khaki shorts

But the wolf in her wasn’t fooled by Tane’s pror, the var, however, Tane didn’t try to disguise his lethal threat behind a wall of ice

No, his h what looked like an empty laundry roo a narrow opening in the wall

Regan sed a sigh as she followed in his wake, ned than surprised to discover the stairs that led deep underground Va if not predictable in their love for the dark and dank

Battling to keep her bulky bags frootiated the steep steps and then the long passageway that ran beneath the surrounding fields, Regan only vaguely noticed when the tunnel transformed from dirt to stainless steel

It was only when Tane slid open a heavy door blocking the path that she realized there was nothing dark or dank about the hidden lair

Wide-eyed, she took in the banks of high-tech equip room There were monitors with live feeds of at least a dozen cahout the nearby countryside, sleek co track of God-only-knehat, and conize

"Holy crap," she breathed, instinctively edging closer to Jagr as the two large va the complicated equipment sent her an impatient scowl Even for a vampire, the over-the-top security system seemed a little paranoid "Do you have a space shuttle tucked in a nearby cornfield?"

Tane glanced over his shoulder as he continued through a far door that led to yet another steel lined passage

"I have s tucked in the cornfields I’ll be happy to show theet rowled, predictably rising to the bait

The taunting vaan wonder just how extensive the tunnels were

"She is yet unclaimed, and I’m as capable as you to offer her protection Actually it would appear I’an rolled her eyes Not again

"You know, I thought Culligan was a jackass because he was an i a male," she drawled in overly sweet tones "Now let lare between the two vampires "I don’t need to be protected by Du next to a door set in the steel wall, Tane turned to regard Jagr with an unexpected aan hissed in annoyance "Oh, it can get a whole lot worse than foul"