Page 49 of Blood Secret

“I don’t know. I have to think. You still have money, right?”

“Yes.”

“We could use that to spend the night elsewhere. In a hotel, maybe. Away from here.”

“And then what?”

“I told you, I don’t know. What I do know is, we have to stay together. Not just physically. We’re a team. We need to work as one.”

I watched rage and fear and understanding and resignation fight for control of her, as everything she thought moved across her face. Resignation won.

“All right. We’re a team.” She looked around the room with a grim smile. “I always wanted to move someplace else, someplace with more room. I never thought this would be why I had to do it.”

I shrugged. “This isn’t the sort of thing anyone can plan for.”

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