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"Ew" She was beautiful, but still Neil Gossett? With "

He straightened "Sounds serious"

"It is I bound hih, I said, "I bound him, like tied him"

He leaned towardme this?"

"Not like that" After a backhand to his shoulder, I lowered my eyes, ashamed at what I was about to tell him "I bound his incorporeal self to his corporeal body He can’t leave it He’s bound to it"

"You can do that?"

"Apparently It just kind of came to me"

"Wow"

"No, what I mean is, he’s mad"

He paused and leveled an astonished stare onone corner of ure out what to say "Charley," he said, apparently decided, "I’ve seen Reyes furious once, remember? It left an i to essentially commit suicide I didn’t knohat else to do"

"So you infuriate him then send him back to prison?" he asked, his voice a harsh whisper

I cringed He made it sound so bad "Pretty much"

"Holy shit, Charley"

"What’d she do now?"

We both looked up Owen Vaughn, the guy who tried to h school, stood over us in his black police uniforhn," Neil said by way of a chilly greeting

Owen tapped his badge "Officer Vaughn," he corrected "I need to knohat happened in that baseavehim with my eyes

"Don’t you mean Uncle Bob?"

"That’s the one"