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“You’re at the resort’s infirmary”
“No” She shook her head and the one Vivi becaain “Where’s Taz?”
“He’s down the hall” She set the water bottle down on the s o
Bianca inhaled a deep breath through her nose, gritted her teeth and fisted the thin white sheets in her hands as she struggled to sit up Sweat broke out on her forehead and her stomach roiled
“Whoa there” Vivi pressed on Bianca’s good shoulder, easing her back down “He’s still knocked out and you’re still feeling the effects of Genie’s Wish”
A large shadow fell across the foot of the bed She glanced over Clay Blackfish loo his black BDUs, a T-shirt with DEA Agent printed across the front and dark circles under bloodshot eyes
“We need to talk before you see him,” Blackfish said
“I don’t have time for that,” she said as she ain The need to see Taz for herself and h her that hurtthat had landed her in an infiret to Taz”
Clay snorted “You betteranywhere until we talk”
His declaration sucked the fight right out of her—well, that and the searing pain in her head that had joined the throb in her shoulder The fact of it was,more than an inch or tas impossible in her current state It would be nice if she could blaut she couldn’t
She’d been hit with Genie’s Wish before and hadn’t gone all over the next day Whatever was in the latest incarnation of the drug was beyond bad And she’d shoved two doses into Taz This tiunshot wound or Genie’s Wish While waiting for the sedative or whatever else they’d given her to wear off, she could talk and do a little digging of her own
“What do you want to know?” she asked
“Everything” Clay sat down in the chair Vivi had vacated earlier and opened the set on the security feed”
So she did, with Vivi standing by her side and shoving the water bottle in her face whenever her voice went raspy It took less tione froory-five hurricane with a side of crocodiles On the thank-God-for-sos, her headache had dulled to a eable six on a ten-point scale by the ti
Clay stood up and pocketed his notebook “Thanks I’ll talk to you lat—”