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He nodded "Someone tipped off the task force They were ambushed The family you saw? They were captured"

"God" My stomach twisted I didn’t like the fact that the dude had chokedthat they had been captured "What about Daeot away They’re actually on their way back here, since they need to lie low before they atteo home"

"And it’ll be safe for theuys were raided"

"I’d rather shoulder that risk than their homes be jeopardized"

I opened my mouth, but I didn’t knohat to say to that That was brave and crazy

"We’ll be okay here," he said, walking over and sitting beside lanced at him "Always?"

"Always," he repeated He’d leaned toward me at some point Or maybe I’d leaned toward hi us "I heard that the irl was found"

"She was" Looking away, I cleared my throat "I saw her Not close up, but I saw her eyes They were burned out, Luc, and she’d been placed in her car, in thelot She’d been left there like--"

"Like someone wanted her to be found that way Just like with the other girl"

I nodded "The public thinks it’s a Luxen"

"It sounds like one" Luc touched my arm, and I drew in a shallow breath as I looked over at hiaze shot toward the door, and a second later there was a knock He sighed as he rose and went to the door

A wicked sense of déjà vu rolled over me, and I tensed It was Grayson He didn’t even look at ht now" Grayson’s voice dropped, but I could still hear hiuests The kind that meant I had to send Kent away"

"Great" Ilanced over his shoulder at me "I’m sorry, but--"

"It’s okay" Because what else could I say? "We have the worst tie look flickered over his face "Always"

My brows knitted "Can I coht back Turn on the TV, watch a "

My eyes narrowed Luc was out of the roo, I looked around the room oncearound his apartment, but I was interested in a whole different kind of snooping I wanted to knoas going on that required Kent, a human, not to be present

I wandered halfway across the roouitar, and then stopped Luc didn’t tell me I had to stay in the rooo with him So if I found my way out of the roo to hi, I iveI slipped out the door, relieved to see that no one was standing guard I madedown six flights of steps didn’t suck as badly as walking up the, because thedown steps, I reached the main level and slowly opened the door I crept into the di to the club I stopped at the end and peered around the corner

I saw Grayson first He was standing by one of the high, round tables, his arht and I could see only Luc’s profile, but it was enough to recognize the bored indifference etched into his striking face

My fingers curled around the edge of the doorway as I saw a uy first He was tall and dark haired, and standing next to hi--a sister She was the feht, and where his features were uy was darker skinned than them, as if he spent a lot of time in the sun

None of them wore a Disabler

And all of them looked like rejects from Bikers ’R’ US They were decked out in leather--leather pants, leather jackets

"We know you help our kind" The one I dee you can’t?"

Help? Duh They were unregistered Luxen--Luxen looking to leave here--but ouldn’t Luc help them?