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Fear sla anywhere without him”

Sos were ined The fear inside her doubled and she sank onto the bed “No,” she whispered and shook her head “I can’t leave without him”

He crossed over to her and knelt down, though his eyes re as the rest of him “Look, I don’t have time to babysit This is life and death” She looked away, hating his intensity, his large fra any of it He grabbed her chin and when she would have yanked away, he held firm and forced her head back so that he could look into her eyes So that she could see the truth

“They know about you and they won’t stop I need to get you the hell away from here or your ass is toast”

A whimper escaped her lips as his fin

gers dug in He arched a brow, voice low and steady When he spoke, it was slowly, as if he was talking to a child “Do you understand?”

He let go and Kira nodded, her thoughts chaotic, her heart breaking

“But Logan—” Her voice broke and she couldn’t finish

“Logan’s not here right now, I ao”

“Is he alive?” she whispered She knehat monsters hunted her, and if he’d come to harm, the blame lay squarely on her shoulders

The stranger didn’t answer Instead he held his hand out

Her own crept toward her belly and an overwhel sadness leeched into her soul “Who are you?” she asked, though her mind was elsewhere and she barely heard his answer

“Priest”

She glanced up “What?”

He leaned down once ainst her cheek “The na, because this town is crawling with otherworld Their nulanced at theand scowled “The air is rank with their smell”