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Not going to happen "I’htened

"She goes," Zane snapped

"Fine Follow ht past the EMTs Poor EMTS, they were still blinking and trying to figure out as going on

"In here" Nancy pointed to a sht back"

They went inside Nancy closed the door behind theone to make the call" Ah, but she’d watched this routine a few ti her contact know that she has a potential in the area"

"A potential? Is that what I am?" He yanked his phone out of his front pocket and tapped fast on the screen He put the phone to his ear and a few seconds later said, "Pak Yeah, I’m in New Orleans" A brief hesitation, then he said, "I need you to run a check on a nurse Nancy Gilbert at Our Sisters of Mercy Hospital She’s about five-foot-four, forty-five to fifty years old and--"

His gaze fleard the door He shoved the phone back into his pocket

Nancy opened the door about three seconds later She had a bright, friendly smile on her face "Sorry, I just needed to assure the EMTs that you were in capable hands" She laughed, a light tinkle of sound "You’d think I’d never treated a patient before!"

Jana inched closer to Zane’s side "Why aren’t the h the chitchat Might as well get to the main show

The door clicked closed Nancy’s sround information on my patient"

Zane narrowed his eyes

"Your parents … what are their names?"

"Why does that matter?"

"Because I need to see if you have a faed forward "Let’s get out of here"

Nancy put a hand on his chest "You’re a deaze darted to Jana "The question I have … are you a full-blood or a hybrid?" She blinked and seeht not knohat she meant "Ah … a hybrid would be a mix, a--"

Zane backed away from her touch, and Jana saw the muscle flex in his jaw "I know the damn term Yeah, my mother was human but that bastard who fathered me wasn’t"

Oh, nice touch Perseus would be all over a hybrid They’d want to recruit him, not kill him They did love that huet off on a de other demons

"Demons don’t always respond the way they’re supposed to when they are given human medications," Nancy said, her voice quiet and calaze darted to Jana "And you…?"

"I’m human I’m his half-sister" Said fast because she knew Nancy would be able to rustle up a deh the veil of glaood look at her … no sense pushing that "I see"

Jana knew exactly what the nurse meant Nancy wasn’t interested in her

"I have some friends" Nancy turned her attention back to Zane "They ith people like you They can help you"

"Bullshit No one can helpinside--"

Nancy’s eyes narrowed "Does it tempt you, this beast inside?"

He didn’t speak

"Does it call to you … taunt you with the power that it has?"

Jana didn’t roll her eyes, but it was a near thing

"I know I can do any daaze darted to hi ue snaked over her bottoo?" Nancy’s eyes were fixed on hirierness glittered in her gaze Hungry vulture

Zane straightened his shoulders "I killed the bastard who claimed to be my father I sent the demon back to hell"

Well, daood writer, too, because that was just the kind of story Perseus would eat up

De even your father because of what he was

Nancy smiled "Good for you," she said "Sometimes, there are some folks that just need to be put down"

Sometimes But those folks weren’t always deaze darted to Jana

Jana swiped her hand over her cheeks, wiping away the tear drops that she still let fall "It’s been so hard," she whispered

Nancy gave her an understanding s fake sy for you now" She turned toward the door

"Where are you going?" Zane asked, taking a step forward

"I need to call a friend He can coht"

Safe and snug inside Perseus Just what Zane wanted H those doors wide open … uy had just played Nancy perfectly

"I’ with hi on Jana’s face "You understand, don’t you? Your brother needs to be around others who understand him"

Yeah, this wasn’t part of the plan Jana blinked and lifted her chin "I understand hi Nancy’s eyes? The last thing she wanted was for that witch to pity her "Your brother is special," Nancy said "My friends can help him, but if you come-you’ll just be in the way They don’t have a place for soht she was simply another human, one without special skills If she’d been a paranor ready to send her off-either to use her or to kill her But a straight huot a pass out of there

Only she didn’t want that pass this tiht need her No, he would need her

"I’ her He turned his head and his eyes met hers "Go home and wait for me I want- I want to see what these people have to say If they can helpher to the curb, too