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“He’s beentime,” Daisy said lifelessly “I don’t reht I knew you But I don’t remember anymore Why don’t I remember?”
“It’s all right,” Holly soothed before Daisy could panic “You’re exhausted and weak We’ll talk when you’re stronger”
There were noises lower down in the house, the sound of steady, unhidden lanced back over his shoulder “The Tower team has arrived”
Holly forced herself to release Daisy into that team’s care “She needs medical attention,” she said to the powerful vampires who’d responded to Venom’s call
They ignored her
Holly had learned to live with the reality of being the lowest non-rit her teethas soling that mad voice she tried to pretend didn’t exist, she anchored herself firmly to the here and nohere she eird but didn’t pulse with power like those around her
The Tower vaerous eyes toward Veno Daisy’s hunched-up foruard I want her blood tested It’ll have mine mixed in with it”
“Yes, sir” Two of the va behind Holly noticed with a corner of herplastic covers on their shoes
The last thing Holly saw before the three disappeared froht were Daisy’s panicked eyes as the wo from her irises Not about to leave the weak and abused vao after her
Veno her in place “You can’t help her” An unforgiving statement
“Fuck you” She tried to wrench out of his hold, failed “What’re they going to do to her?”
“Exactly what I said” Releasing her only when it was too late for her to catch up to the ones who had Daisy, he spoke to the other vampires who’d responded “Clean up thisunusual you find”
“Yes, sir”
“There could be clues here,” Hollyat her arm
Venolasses were still on, but she could tell he was looking at the place where he’d gripped her, and where she was now rubbing She dropped her hand, not about to appear weak or soft in front of him
“They’re a fully trained forensic tea to retrieve their gear from the van “Let’s leave them to it”
Holly had to adray and drizzling faintly, but the air she drew into her lungs elcoet to her “Why did you ask Daisy that?” she asked after Venoned up to serve this Kenasha bastard?”
When Venolanced at her, she reached out and snatched off those stupid sunglasses She was half-tenizant that they were probably worth sixher fingers around them
He s on his eyelashes “When are you going to give those back?”
Never “Maybe if you answer my question”
She expected hiht to the information She spoke to cut him off as they crossed the road to where he’d left his car Of course it was still there, not a scratch on it “I’m part of the team that works in this section of the city I need to know if so on that shouldn’t be”
She didn’t know if it was her words, or if he’d decided to trust her—after all, she’d made it clear she wasn’t about to incur Raphael’s wrath by spilling secrets—but he said, “I knoho Kenasha is, and, as I suspected, he currently has no va under his care”