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The peacekeeper looked at her face and the man who now had a pancake for a hand.
Hazor said, “We are leaving.”
He picked her up, walked out of the warehouse with her, and headed for the medical centre. “Cloudy, you have to stop getting into trouble.”
“Emgoth wanted to expand without consulting me. Take it out of his hide. He stirred the mekkar nest.”
“Ah. That makes more sense. You seem to be a woman who does her research before she makes up her mind.”
She groaned. “You spoke to your mother.”
“She was very forthcoming when I asked about her evening. She had a lot of fun and likes your family and the pub very much. Apparently, my father and yours got drunk.”
“Yeah, that rings a bell.”
He chuckled and landed at the centre, and a medic was assigned to them in under a minute. First, she got a gel mask, and then a machine worked her skin over with light. The medic was a little nervous, but an hour after they entered the facility, she was leaving with her face back in normal shape.
They headed to the stall, and she slowly went over her early prep. By the time Sunny arrived, things were ready to get started, and Molly arrived at the end of the dock behind him. She sprinted past him, laughing, and he saw his cousin and burst into a matching run.
Hazor held her as he sat on one of the tables. She smiled at Sunny. “I changed the grill fuel bottle. It’s good for a few days. I have had a heckuva last thirty hours and need to get some sleep.”
Molly walked up to her. “How are you doing? I heard about the kidnapping.”
“Yeah, it was more abduction with some face slapping like one of those video reels. Better aim, though.”
Hazor muttered, “And the bondage.”
“Oh, that, too.” She leaned her head against him.
He chuckled. “Sunny, do you have it?”
Sunny looked at Molly. “With her? Absolutely. Molly, do you speak manual?”
“I do.”
“Nice. Keep the signs up, but add and cousin.” Cloudy yawned.
“Is tomorrow your rest day?” Hazor asked.
She nodded.
He stood, spoke softly to her relatives, and then they went up and away.
“You aren’t taking me home.”
He chuckled. “It will be home soon enough.”
“What?”
“Mother purchased a manor on the outskirts of town. You will need personal transport or a driver to get into town, but we have a sheltered shoreline, and you can I can go swimming all you like.”
“Nice.”
He chuckled. “For now, we both need rest. You are a tiring woman.”
“Aw, you say the cutest things.”
She snuggled against him, trusting him to get her to sleep safely.
