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"I love you" She looked up at him, her mouth soft, her eyes damp "I think I always have I just needed to see the real you"

"As I needed to know you" He smiled, a warm and beautiful smile, as if she had offered him a miracle "Noe have found each other, Geliebte"

Chapter 21

"And that’s all I know," Fort Lauderdale hokenis of Lucan, the suzerain of South Florida, said "Sorry I couldn’t be more help, Alex"

"No problem, Sam I knew you were just a baby when they sent you south" Alex tapped the end of her pencil like a dru: Did they ever tell you why they sent you all the way down to Florida for foster care placement?"

"Not that I remember Wait, yeah, there was this one weird notation somewhere in my DCF jacket Let me look" There was a shuffle of papers as Sam checked her personal records "Here it is It just a scribbled note by the CW caseworker in Chicago Says I had allergies when I was a kid They had to give ht of what Charlie had told her "What are you allergic to?"

"That’s the weird part Nothing Not even penicillin" A wry note entered her voice "Maybe I was allergic to Chicago"

After Alex hung up the phone, she carried her notes fro through the laptop?"

"I have not found any records on it that relate to the orphanage or the Brethren" He closed the device and turned to her "Did Saht?"

"No She knew she was born in Illinois and sent down south when she was a baby, but that’s all Nothing in her records to speak of, except a note about allergies she doesn’t have" She flipped a page "The very tough phone call today was Nick, once I tracked down her and Gabriel They’re over in Paris, looking for so with the Brethren"

Cyprien nodded "Nicola is still not co to us"

"Richard’s wife killed her parents She’s entitled But she likesis, she didn’t know she was adopted Shocked the hell out of her, too" Alex made a face "She said she has her o through thearded her with a patient expression "If you confirm that Nicola was also adopted, ill you conclude froers "One: None of us reo Two: All of us are fee ability before we e from human to Darkyn"

"Samantha has an ability?"

"Yeah, and it’s worse than mine"

"How bad could it be?"

She looked at him "If she touches the blood of murder victims, she has a vision of how they were killed Front row seat to rimaced "That is worse than yours"

"What it boils down to is that ere all different before the Kyn ever messed with us," Alex said "I’, and Sam never has to rent slasher flicks Not what you’d call standard hu systems"

"There is only one problem with your theory," Michael said "Jeed, and she was not adopted"

"Bitch just ruins everything, doesn’t she?" Alex shook her head "I still think there’s a connection between us; I’ it But it could explain why the four of us survived the change froes"

"Five"

She frowned "IHarper was huot on his plane"

"Well, hell" She tossed her notepad on the desk "That blowson; they were only out there a couple of days It took the rest of us weeks to e How did she do it so fast?"

Michael moved his shoulders