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And we had so hashed out our situation with the Red as much as we could at that point, we spent the next hour re, and Daniel I told the others about our time in Britain, and we talked about how they’d helped us here in Rockabill The sad thing was none of us really knew much about them, except Hiral, but he had soood hour that I’d realized eresoloom, I hadn’t noticed ere short one person

‘Hey, where’s my dad?’

‘Out in the workshop,’ Iris answered He’d et away from all the bustle in the house

‘Does he know?’ I asked

The succubus shook her fair head To be honest, I was glad he hadn’t heard all of e’d just said He was rolling with everything really well, but there was no point in scaring the crap out of hi to take him some coffee,’ I said ‘Clear my head’ Then I remembered my dad’s coffee addiction ‘Wait, can he have some?’ I asked my human friends

Grizzie laughed and Tracy smiled ‘Yes, he can have some,’ the latter said ‘But only one cup a day, that’s hisa splash ofat the sight of hiled it out of our house so, too, because if he didn’t see his soaps, he got quite cranky

I crept in, not wanting to wake hi down on the work stool he’d pulled up next to his recliner Then I reached for the re around to turn the television off

My finger froze on the button Those weren’t soaps

My dad had fallen asleep watching the news Greeting e of London, under attack by a on

Swiftly, I ran back to the house to get the others

It had begun

Chapter Eighteen

‘Guys!’ I called, flinging open Anyan’s front door ‘Guys!’

The panic in ly

‘What’s up?’ Ryu asked as I ran past hi flat-screen television

I didn’t reply, instead hitting a few buttons to turn on one of our local networks As I’d assu the Red’s attack on London, including Maine’s news networks

‘…there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason behind these attacks,’ droned an anchorwoe froan around daith the creature attacking Weste cut to a few pictures of Big Ben, lying across the split roof of the British Parlia

Ryu sat down next to me, and then Iris and Caleb joined us on Anyan’s , clearly shocked, in front of the television The Great Island was his ho, the creature has been sighted all over London, attacking sites indiscrihout the city, and the military has been called in The death toll has been reported at anywhere between twenty-eight and a few hundred, with reports of injuries co asattended to by para; other bystanders, unhurt, reacting to the sight of the Red

Sounds carunt I turned to find Anyan, wearing sweatpants and his favorite Eukanuba T-shirt, watching the television Hate and fear burned in his eyes, and I reuest

He also looked too thin and too weak, so I stood up and gestured for him to take el in the toaster for his breakfast He needed to regain his strength, and fast

For this as far froe as I waited for the bagel to pop up, then smeared it liberally with full-fat creaue,’ I said, right before I picked up the reottaan eyelash, Ryu told us we had access to his private jet He’d already called to have it flown into Eastport, our neighboring town, from where it lived at the compound outside Montreal

‘Good,’ I said ‘Daoud can stay with the girls and my dad Iris? Caleb?’