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“I’ll get blood all over it”

“I don’t give a fuck about that We’ll buy the owner a new one” I helped Devil stretch out on his good side

“Do Giorgio or Oren have ?”

“They’re bringing Dr Maness with them We can trust her”

“Dareat, but…”

“You’re still not used to all my family can do, are you?” His smile made me worry a little less

“I’et used to it”

“They’re using X’s plane They’ll be here in about two hours”

“Good” I wanted Devil checked out, and we needed to ainst Donaldson If he’d killed once to taunt us, I had no doubt he’d do it again

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Soether as Joe cleaned htet off the couch for any reason He even took io’s call

I pretended to hate hi over me, but I actually found his concern adorable His insistence that I rest worked because some time later, I woke to the sound of his voice

“That sounds good The doctor showing up alone won’t be a big deal Donaldson will guess he hit hisyou”

I tried to sit up and gasped “Fuck, that hurts”

Joe scowled at me “Lie back down Jesus”

“Is that Giorgio?”

“Yes”

I held outJoe should hand me the phone Instead, he put the call on speaker

“Giorgio, where the hell are you?”

“Fuck, Devil Is that anyway to talk to your rescue party?”

“It’s only been two hours,” Joe said “He couldn’t get here any sooner We were just saying it io and Oren to set themselves up someplace close by until we have a plan We don’t want Donaldson to see them here”

“Our best chance is to take hiio added

I considered this I wanted theood amount of blood, and I wasn’t at ood point