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She didn’t like the idea of that. Bonnie was sweet. And she wasn’t going to let anyone dictate who could be her friend.
“I need to get Greer x-rayed and home,” Hack said abruptly. He looked stressed and worried.
“I’m going to call Ink,” Aidan said, glancing over at Duke. “You need to call you know who.”
“Fuck,” Duke sighed. “Why do I get all the fun jobs?”
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Hack carried her carefully into his house. Stone was waiting by the door when they arrived.
“I thought you would be assigned to another job by now?” Hack asked him.
“Ink reassigned me back to Greer. And I’m glad he did.” He glanced down at Greer, who was lying sleepily in his arms. “We’ll keep her safe. One of my guys is doing a perimeter check. Once she draws that picture of her attacker, Brody will run it through the database to find this fucker. Unfortunately, the outside cameras at Reaper’s didn’t get a good shot of his face.”
“Boulder Manny, you’re here,” she said with a goofy grin.
“I dosed her up on painkillers for the drive here,” Hack told him as he heard a truck pull up behind them. He looked over to see Aidan and Duke getting out. Cash and Ralen drove up in their truck next.
They were waiting on the Fox to get back to them. Aidan and Cash didn’t seem to want to leave Greer. So it looked like he might have guests tonight.
He hoped they didn’t mind sleeping on the floor, because no one was going in her nest.
“She won’t be drawing anything right now.”
“I can do it,” she protested. “Boulder Manny, I missed you.”
Hack carried her further inside as the others walked in.
“I’m putting her into bed,” Hack said. “You can find yourselves blankets and pillows and shit. Duke, you staying?”
“Only until our, uh, friend, gets back to me then I’m going home to Sunny.”
“Good thing, the Fox is already here then.”
Hack turned toward the voice. An older guy with a slight pot belly stepped out of the shadows of the kitchen. He had a cap on over his mousy brown hair.
Stone started swearing. “How the fuck did you get in here? You can’t have gotten past my guy!”
“Course I can. I have vastly superior skills to that idiot.”
“Wait. You said you’re the Fox?” Cash asked.
“I am. You’ve heard of me then?”
“Uh, yeah,” Cash said, sounding ill. “A time or two. Jesus. Shit.” He looked over at Duke. “He’s not your friend? The one you called about the Devil?”
Ralen started swearing quietly.
“Oh, Duke and I are much closer than friends. Aren’t we, Duke?”
“Dear Lord,” Duke muttered.
Hack squeezed Greer harder, as though he might protect her better. She squeaked in pain.
“Shit, sorry, baby.”
“Easy there, Doc,” the Fox said. “You’re meant to heal, not harm.” He shot her a cursory glance, but then looked over at the others. Hack breathed out a sigh of relief. He’d had the Fox in his house once before. He’d really hoped that would be the only time.
