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The Dovia that eed with Cilya was dressed in a classy black sheath and wore a string of pearls on her neck, th side was pulled up, a pretty, shiny auburn-red wing The other side looked like glea peach fuzz and didn't detract from the princess persona A very mature princess, with serious eyes, soft mouth

She was still holding the stuffed bunny She had her arainst her stomach, under her breasts But when she reluctantly started to let go of it, hand it back, Cilya pressed it into her hands and hugged her The shifter female rubbed Dovia's back and ive it away to someone who needs it, when you don't anymore"

Cilya thankfully hadn't said "to your own child" She'd picked up the hint froht Or ht, in ti that re an act of kindness Sometimes it was necessary, to move on Even an act of kindness could be a tether to soh Cai's mind

"Ito him It snapped his attention to the present, which e to his face, for Lynn stepped back a small pace But she recovered, with the stiff politeness of a deterh for, well, sa"

Cai didn't knohat to say to that, to her, to soaze continually strayed to Rand, filled with an obvious plea for hi with a vae it

Rand would be another strong ood friend Fane and Lynn cared about Fane was also connected to other shifters in the southeast area In tiht just present hi to its nura had Great Whoopee

Rand gave Lynn a wared each of the children He e to each Cai didn't tune into it He wandered over to the limo

Correction He did knohat to say to so that would make them even rateful to the pack for their help, that he would do that here So he did what the hu nice, don't say anything at all

"Hell of a lot of things you can learn fro children's books," he said to no one in particular The lih a badass, he was human, a Council servant, so therefore deferential and attentive, but Cai turned away so he kneasn't being addressed He didn't need a da from a human

Speak of the devil

Gideon was leaning against the back of the liroup, too Maybe to double check whatever a in the trunk, but noas fishing around in the bag Lynn had offered

"Hey, Rasheed," he said, calling out to the driver "Roast beef sandwiches Lots of extra roast beef"

Rasheedto want one, even if you have to act like you have a stick up your ass" He shifted his glance to Cai "Good thing about being a servant You know your vah they have an annoying tendency to steal a couple fries every damn time we hit a McDonald's"

Despite the banter, there was a stillness in the hunter's eyes that told Cai that Gideon wascalculated several different ways to counter hihts of Lodell propelled hi a life-or-death situation, could happen Except Daegan had made it clear that Cai wouldn't survive a second atte Rand alive had become important to Cai It was a bitch of a dilemma

A lot of things were

"Rand said Goddard didn't mark the women because of soet one pregnant that way"

"What he nant feiti souls" Cai shrugged "A lot of the Trads, even if they shared his view of huue with the science None of us had ever heard of a born vampire with a human parent asn't the fully marked servant of the other vampire parent"

"Guess that was the only good thing about the guy," Gideon said "The wo to make it"

But how many years would it take her to believe she'd survived? Or want to? Cai pushed away that personal trip down memory lane He hadn't asked about the woman, but Gideon had volunteered the info as if he wanted to know And he was still talking Maybe it would be worth it to get run through again

"If he'd third marked her, or any of her boys had, she would have followed them into the afterlife," the hunter said

"According to 'civilized vampire' crazy shit," Cai said