I was covered in sweat. The t-shirt and boxers I’d slept in stuck to me and I was breathing heavily.This couldn’t go on. I had to do something abo...t it.But what?Wasn’t it obvious? She’d told me. Chloe had told me. Hell, Emily had taken me there and very nearly forced me to do it.But this was something I had to do alone. Well, as alone as I could be with her still in my head.I glanced at the clock on my bedside table. Seven-thirty. I’d thought it might be earlier than that. My stomach rumbled. ‘I got some money set aside . . . ‘ The other cop snorted. ‘Careful, kid. It’s against the law to bribe a cop.’ Salt sat up on the bed, allowing the blanket to fall away. She rolled over and put her feet on the floor, and stood. ‘Oh, come on, you guys. Isn’t there anything we could do for you to make this right?’ Her slender youthful beauty looked so vulnerable. She rubbed up against the older cop, who looked like he’d been hit on the head by a brick. ‘No way,’ the younger cop said. ‘I hear. ”“Yes, no one but you knows.”“It’s the same. I can’t believe we shared this secret.”“I know...”.Loren looked me in the eyes as she reached behind her and unhooked her bra. She briefly held it in front of her, and then let it slide off her shoulders, to be tossed aside.Her breasts were fairly large, a generous “C” cup. They sagged some, but were quite shapely. Quite pale inside the tan lines, I could see the delicate tracery of veins beneath. Her nipples were brown, large and stiff, with large. His eyes’ glow brightened by a lux or two. “What have you heard?”She shook her head. “Very little. You clashed with an infernal cult in Greystone, two days’ walk away. You stopped them, but something happened to you. Rose, your companion, only understood that it changed you. You took yourself to this range and disappeared. Cut yourself off from the world.”Speaking of cutting himself off, Trigru took a step back from her, away from her hand. He closed his eyes. “That cult didn’t go down easily,”.