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So before the doctor arrived Her jeans were in the bag she had been forced to leave in the hotel, and no doubt the Coyote soldiers who had trashed it had taken the bag just to be certain what they wanted wasn't there But her car had still been in the parking lot, and the s with her boots, socks and winter jacket was still stuffed in the trunk The tiny compartment built into the hole of that boot still held her last scent neutralizer She'd checked just to be certain

It would last twelve hours Long enough for her to get the hell out of Haven and halfway to the nearest town If she were lucky, she ht be able to contact the only friend she had ever been able to depend on and hitch a ride clear out of Colorado

She was going to have to escape She needed to figure out what to do with that data chip, and the best way to keep it out of both Breed and Council control

She should just destroy it

She played with the ring on her finger, her thu of diaem looked real, the outer shell actually was real What lay beneath it was the true value of the jewelry though It was there that her father had hidden the chip filled with infora

Only God knehat it said, or as actually in the files She couldn't decrypt them, and she had tried countless times over the years

One thing was for certain--she was going to have to do so out of here was iive that chip to

She couldn't give it to the Council They had killed her father and brother, given the order to the Coyote to rip her brother's throat out Nothing on Earth or in hell could convince her to give them the information they wanted She would destroy it first

Giving it to the Breeds was just as dangerous She had no idea what the information was or what her father's research entailed She knew though that he considered it so dangerous, so lethal in the hands of the Council that he and her brother had died to protect it

He had promised her someone would come for the chip, but no one had ever come to her to tell her that he was the one her father had sent

The Council deht to capture her and to force the inforh she would turn around and pass it to them in the shadows

But no one had simply said, "Your father told me to come to you"

Running at fourteen hadn't been easy There had been days, weeks at a ti to ensure no Breed caught her scent, trying to figure out how to survive

It didn't h, she was always found

On a snowy, frigidly cold night the year she turned eighteen, she had been at a breaking point Dirty, sick, cold and hungry, she had huddled in an alley behind a loud, popular restaurant and nightclub She couldn't have gone any farther She couldn't have fought so much as one more battle