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“So we’ve discovered,” she agreed.
“We should go in through the back door,” Camriel suggested when they reached the doctor’s office.He tried the door to find it was locked.It opened outwards, so he couldn’t kick it in without destroying it.The lock was pathetic and snapped when he twisted the door handle and gave the door a yank.
“Now, that’s magic,” Grace joked, then sauntered past him.Camriel pulled the door shut and followed her inside.No one had been there since her last visit that she could see.“We should look for containers to carry everything in,” she suggested.
“The convenience store next door will probably have some,” he figured.
“We should grab more supplies while we’re here,” she mused.“We really need the truck.It’ll take us all day to walk backwards and forwards to load it up.”
Camriel reluctantly nodded.“We’ll gather everything we need first and pile it up out the back.I’ll retrieve the truck when we’re ready to leave.”
Grace followed him outside and waited for him to break into the convenience store.She could have used her lockpicks, but the warrior enjoyed breaking the doors open.Someone had looted the store, already, but there was plenty of canned food left.
They found a stack of large plastic containers and began loading food into them.When they were done, they carried them out through the back door.A narrow road ran along the back of the stores, with trees growing right beside it.There would be just enough room for the truck.
“Now for the medical supplies,” Grace said, lugging several empty containers into the doctor’s office.“The pharmacy will have medicine like antibiotics and other things we might need,” she added.“We’ve already taken some stuff from it.It’s near the sporting goods store.”
Camriel pondered about how to tell Grace the truth without making her feel rejected that he didn’t feel anything for her.He began to understand his commander’s reluctance to discuss the matter with Zoe.
“For the love of everything holy,” Grace said in exasperation when they finished with the doctor’s office.“Just tell me what your big secret is!”
Her outburst startled the warrior into calling on his diamond encrusted gold and silver sword.She gasped at the sight, but he put his finger to his lips when she opened her mouth.“I can sense people coming,” he whispered.They were just normal humans, so he released the magic that had called on his weapon and it vanished.
Grace pulled her pistol out of the pocket of her baggy sweater.Her young face was grim and ready for battle.They moved over to the window, closing the blinds until they could see out, but no one could see in.
Camriel cocked his head to the side and his eyes went distant.Then he grinned so widely that Grace wondered if he’d spotted a pile of gold.“What?”she hissed at him.
“I just received a message from my boss,” he said, suppressing his excitement.Amaros and Zoe were about to become bonded and they wanted privacy.
“What’s the message?”she asked.
“It’ll have to wait,” he said as a group of four men slowly drove into town, obviously trying to be quiet.Their truck was almost the same size as Amaros’ tank.
Grace rolled her eyes when she saw Camriel’s face light up even more this time.“I guess you just found your new truck,” she figured.
“It’s beautiful,” the warrior said reverently.Midnight blue, it didn’t have a scratch on it.“We need to lure them away from the vehicle,” he said craftily, turning to beseech her with his sky-blue eyes.“I’ll owe you one if you act as my decoy.”
“I’ll call you on that one day,” she vowed, then stepped around him to open the door.
