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The change was so abrupt that I would have said so, but he looked at me and I trusted he had his reasons He beeped the Jeep so it was unlocked and asked me to open the doors and let the heat out It wasn’t that hot, but I didn’t argue I just went to the car and opened both front doors I’d finished the French fries a while ago, so I found a trash can in the parking lot and put the garbage in it while the car aired out or whatever

Newer seat with the doors open “Why the abrupt end?” I asked him

“I didn’t want you to bewitch another dancer”

“I’m in control noman Promise”

“Let me see your eyes”

I didn’t argue I just lowered h for him to see

He sighed as if a weight had been lifted off his shoulders “Norain”

I put the glasses back on because, well, sunlight, but said, “Good”

“Giselle started touching you and being all chummy I just didn’t want to see you roll another dancer Besides, we’d learned e came to learn”

“That Jocelyn’s alibi is airtight,” I said

He closed his door, so I did the sa “What happened in the club, Blake? I know you have soht that was from the lycanthropy What you did in there was vampire, not shapeshifter”

Newman and I ork friends, not friend friends I trusted him with my life, but I wasn’t sure I could trust him with all my secrets “I usually carry protein bars and water with ot this trip I need to eat real food, not just coffee, about every four hours to keep the other ers under control”

“Other ers? What does that even mean?”

“It er than you have, and the more time I spend with it, the more of it seems to rub off on me”

He gripped the steering wheel “Jeffries and Karlton both caught lycanthropy on the job on the same damn case It was Karlton’s and my first time in the field on an active hunt It could have been me”