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‘Yes,’ came Iris’s voice froure it out’

I twistedaround Iris Lord kno long they’d been waiting there

Overcome with emotion, all I could do was hold out my ar both my dad and me in her ample, enhanced bosoms My dad looked alarmed, but I was used to it Tracy was behind her wife, her are, pregnant belly Iris and Caleb did their part and took the other side Nell and Trill were in front and back, the gno an ar, and Hiral stood back, looking a bit flustered at all the eed and cried and everyone had said sos of loss, we still stayed as ere, hugging each other tight

Finally, ure this out?’ he asked

‘Hell yeah,’ Grizzie said, her husky voice growling

‘We’re getting Anyan back,’ Iris told ain, and I could only grasp her hand tightly in response

‘We need snacks,’ Tracy said, rub

‘I like these people,’ said Hiral, following Tracy to the kitchen

‘I like them, too,’ I said to no one in particular as weto do

Operation Get Anyan Back was in full effect

‘So what exactly happened?’ Grizzie asked as we all settled around Anyan’s large, open-planned living roo touches on the snacks she was preparing

My stomach rumbled like aKeeping one eye on Tracy’s progress, I turned Grizzie’s question around on her

‘I want to know the sa,’ I said ‘How ave le ‘You should be in trouble,secrets fro my head It had always bothered me that I couldn’t tell Grizzie and Tracy about my supernatural life, but it had been as much for their sake as the sake of the secret The more they knew, the etting kidnapped and tortured just because I couldn’t keep ain, rolling over and over in its eave me a queer look as I clamped a hand to my belly

‘Sorry I don’t think I’ve eaten in a few days Er, weeks’

My dad shook his head; as if that was the craziest thing he’d heard in the past week Not

‘So how did it all coht a dragon on television,’ Tracy said drily as she placed a platter of sandwich halves in front of us I picked up what I thought was turkey and cheddar, biting into it gratefully

‘There was that,’ I said around my mouthful of food It came out, ‘Der wad dat’

‘And then your ex showed up, with Caleb and Iris, and they whisked us out to the cabin we thought belonged to our fas to another of your kind nahest"’ Grizzie was really glaring atto keepentirely to keep secret any single scrap of infor my love life

Griz had priorities

‘Soy,’ I e bite of sandwich

Tracy set down a platter of sliced-up fruit and a bowl of potato chips, both of which I helped myself to like a toddler confronted with a limited supply of Cheerios

Tracy took a seat next to Grizzie, and finished what her partner had started ‘Your dad explained everything And he told us that he had only just found out, which made us feel a bit better I think Ryu would have wiped all of our ain, but Iris and Caleb talked him out of it, since everyone and their e with you in it’