Chapter 132

I could hear them talking in the other room.

"You said you were done with her," the girl said.

"You saw with your own eyes the condition she's in, Natalia," Tony said. "She's a Council member. This is Council business."

"Well, why did she come here?" Natalia asked.

"Natalia, this is not the time, baby. Tige is dead, and so is Julie and everyone else that would have been in her house."

Natalia sighed. "Will you keep me in the loop, Tony?"

"Yes. Now go home."

"I still don't trust this."

Tony returned to the bathroom alone. "She's gone."

I nodded.

"Have you fed? You look exhausted."

He led me back into the bedroom and started searching his drawers for clothes. He found me a jogging suit that billowed around me. "Follow me back to the house." And then I vanished.

When I reappeared it was to the sight of Paul in human form. He was naked, filthy, and curled up on the floor naked and breathing heavily in an exhausted sleep. I knelt down beside him and touched the pulse in his