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I silently cursed Elle for seeing ht be three years younger, but she’d spent ht I was in trouble

I pretended to knohat I was doing and repeated the story I’d been telling o down fine, and then I’ll return to New York"

"Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Bea thinks you’re back on her crew for good She told ain, and that after this con, she’s got lots ht descend on me, and I sank down in my seat I had assumed that Bea would only blackot that cocaine back, I would never be free of her

"Darowled "Dee, do I have to coe Besides, aren’t you busy with your Robin Hood gang?"

Elle laughed at my reference She had a crew of con artists who considered themselves to be ethical They only attacked people who had toothe swindled rich crooks, teaching the wealth to their innocent victims Elle was the ood runner and gy seen

The Adjusters got their start a few years back, when Elle went looking for her birth parents She found the on to their home because of a predatory lender who had tricked them into an expensive refinance Elle asse con that took the finance coave most of it to the people they had cheated