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Nick went strangely still. Trevor immediately began to curse.
“Now do you believe me?” Kira demanded. She glared at each of them in turn.
Nick looked as if someone had hit him upside the head with a two by four. “Where is Iris’s room?” he asked Karen after visibly steadying himself.
“It’s this way.”
Karen ambled ahead of them on her long legs, her worn, flat shoes making barely any sound against the linoleum floor. Nick strode after her. Kira and Trevor found themselves scrambling to catch up. Jennie watched them go from her seat behind the counter, her eyes as wide as buttons.
“You’ll have to keep your voices down,” Karen said over her shoulder in a low voice before anyone else could speak. “All our residents are asleep. I don’t want to alarm them.”
Kira saw Nick nod in response
