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He juhtly, "He was The Master Key dies when it’s his turn to retire He always dies There is no other way to protect his faered you by telling you with these other people here Your children will never be safe again Are you happy you know?"

I fought a sob, "Fuck!" What other as there?

I looked around the roo, as my neck nearly seized

Chapter Twelve – Love in all the wrong places

I stared up into the dark ceiling and knew

There was one answer to the proble chest She was either sleeping or very good at faking

I reached for my clutch and slipped the phone from it Coop had told me to leave it behind, but I hadn’t I didn’t want to think about why I looked at the screen and the number that had called seventeen tie button and texted slowly, ‘Come Find Me! I’ even What was he going to do to me, if I came back? Would he hurt me?

I slipped from the bed and tiptoed from the room and down the hall I picked my shoes up, but as I rounded the corner I heard a whisper, "You won’t get far you know Mister serious, he likes you"

I turned to see a pair of dark eyes in the shadowed corner of the store

I nodded, "He’s like nine-years old I need answers, Fitz I’ you Tell theet they ever lint of his teeth fro in the , "I’ll be out of here the minute they are, kid"

I shook my head, "I’m so sorry to have involved you"

He chuckled softly, "I kneould colad it was you The Burrow can’t stay hidden without a lot of work, and unfortunately, tily harder to keep its secret"

I frowned, "What do you do with the doctors that don’t want to stay hidden?"

His eyes narrowed as he stepped forward and hugged nored my question

I pulled back, "How do you know it all?"

He kissedlike a business card in et stuck, call this nuone forever"

I nodded, "Okay Thanks, Uncle" I kissed his weathered face and opened the front door to the store I walked down the cold sidewalk and turned up an alley I pulled on my boots and tucked the card in my clutch

The phone vibrated

‘Done with your uncle then?’

My heart hurt instantly I went to the phone function and dialed in the code and then the nu me already?"

"RUN, FITZ! DON’T WAIT! WAKE THEM AND RUN NOW!"

He hung up before I had a chance to explain I started to run I dialed the number that had called repeatedly

"To what do I owe the pleasure of this hed, "I need you to help me" I ran to a corner and stopped there I pressed my back into the concrete wall and spoke softly, "I will do whatever you want, if you help hed, "You kno to play hardball Whatever I want?"

I bit enerate, but I didn’t I nodded, "Whatever you want But you can’t hurt anyone Note black SUV pulled up the corner of the street The ered I gasped when I saw his face, "We can negotiate in the car"

I lowered the phone How had he done it? No one should have known about Fitz There was no ere followed, unless one of us was a mole And yet there in front of me was Servario, with a look that could skin a cat

I looked both ways and walked across the road softly I expected a bullet to strike me in the back, as he moved over and I climbed in

The new car smell struck reen hints in them, that were there when he was happy I closed the door and looked down, "Please don’t hurt thelass in front of us and the SUV drove away As we rounded the corner, I caught a gli after us

"Ironic, isn’t it," he said and sipped fro, desperate for you to stay withaith you in his car" He leaned over, taking a good look at Coop, "I have to say, I think he has a bit of a thing for you"

I shook my head as I watched Coop from the , "No, he doesn’t He’s like that with everyone He’s flirty and fun away fro on the job Somehow he ed to angry, "I dare say, you have a thing for him as well"

I looked up at Servario’s stoic face, "I’ed