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L ucy was a smart, capable woman and she could definitely kick my arse. I wouldn’t usually worry about her leaving Guttertown alone, but not with the Ghoul out there. He wouldn’t want to get caught and now my girlfriend was hunting for him.

Basselt came down after checking on Caitrin.

I really liked that guy. I got to sleep a little later now that he’d taken over hunting.

He was an amazing cook and the Theran remedies he was going to bring to Guttertown would save lives.

And there were some idiot humans that would hurt him just for being Theran.

Arseholes.

“I’m going to need your help,” Basselt said.

“Anything.”

“I listen about as well as Lucy does when people are in danger. The Theran have worn your clothes and gone undercover among you to try to figure out how to break our people out of your prisons. I can blend and I’m also a wolf.

I’m not seen unless I want to be. You get me the location of those crime scenes and I’ll help her. ”

“Thank you. She’ll be grateful right after she’s done murdering us both.”

“She’s just like her mother,” Basselt muttered.

“Just a thing if you’re going to work here.

Lucy is completely Caitrin’s daughter. She got nothing from her father.

They don’t just look alike. They think alike.

You never want both of them mad at you at the same time.

Lucy will be furious, but you’re going to go up loads in Caitrin’s eyes for looking out for her kid. ”

“It’s just not right. We have our problems and there are a lot of things in our culture that I don’t agree with, but we don’t withhold medical treatment from people and we don’t use our children like that. We also don’t treat our women the way you do.”

“Not me! I’ll be the first to tell you there are several women in Guttertown I’m not going to fuck with under any circumstance. Caitrin and the Madame practically raised me and they are terrifying. ”

“Get me the locations and I’ll help Lucy find your Ghoul.”

“Just don’t get caught. I really like you and you could change a lot of shit for Guttertown.”

“Wolf, remember? You’d better not get drunk or I’m going to have to stop you. I’ve already had one of the women of the Whispering Raven angry at me and I don’t intend to piss off the second unless I can immediately make it up to her.”

I shuddered.

“I’m not getting drunk like that again for a very long time.”