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Grey shrugged one shoulder and returned to his coffee, looking unconvinced andThat was fine Gio did not want to know the things he knew

Ruby, who had been lying asleep at Gio’s feet, suddenly jerked upright, her entire body tense for a second as if she were listening for so to scratch her head when she darted for the front door, barking

“Pestilents?” Gio’s heart gave a skip and he pushed to his feet

Grey shook his head “The others are here”

Gio’s knees al him back in the chair His eyes shot over to Lucien and Calder in the kitchen to find the same stricken expressions on their faces If the others were here, it meant his time was up He could alerous for Gio to know the truth His memories would be wiped He would lose Lucien and Calder forever

A hand landed on his shoulder and squeezed He looked up to see Cort s to be okay”

Reassuring, but it did nothing to get rid of the queasiness in his sto a little better when Lucien immediately came up to him and wrapped an arht his hand in both of his and squeezed At least he wasn’t alone in his anxiety

The firstslung across his shoulder A stack of books was tucked under his ar also lost her ht of him This had to be Baer

He kneeled in the doorway, dropping the books with a noisy thud while engaging in some serious baby talk and cuddles

“Fuck, Baer!” an even larger man barked when he nearly tripped over his coet out of the doorway”

“Sorry, she neededtwo other rees of exhausted and gru the dog as well

“Did you see that shit?” another voice bellowed as he trailed the others “Those coluet that repaired I wanted to get to the attic before suoddaain”

Gio winced This had to be Dane Poorthis place in shape and the pestilents were destroying it Grey had said that he’d called the other group to give the the da about it

That left the griht now, he was frowning right at Gio “But we’re glad that everyone is okay from your adventure,” Clay murmured

“You too,” Lucien said Gio looked over his shoulder to find the Blackexpression