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"I bet they did I’ve called my boyfriend worse," Bryan said

"Just one o to counseling and support groups and--"

"What stage is bargaining?" Bryan asked

"It’s sohtened, her face brightening Only one guy did that to every girl and every other guy I knew

It was hi," Reyes said, his voice like s otten so heavy over the last couple of hours So all I could see when the son of evil incarnate walked up was his crotch The sanant The same crotch that I craved like a heroin addict craved, well, heroin

"You ready to coing out with my friends Caroline and Bryan And I have no idea who you are I already told you that once today"

I heard the humor in Reyes’s voice when he said, "Dutch, do I need to bend you overer danger!"

Sadly, both Caroline and Bryan were too busy passing flirtatious glances Reyes’s way to call the cops Damn them No, damn him!

He stopped and lifted my face off the bar "Are you actually drunk?"

"I think sheher mocha latte," Caroline said, her face all soft and sparkly "We aren’t supposed to have alcohol on the pre a stir deep in my belly, and foundI didn’t have a flask Like a tiny flask would get e store and buy a fifth of Jack I downed half before I even walked in, then I sled the pint that had come with it inoff the very idea "I think she’s had a hard day"

"You,at her, "have no idea First, I find this ho to die soon Then I find out not one, but two ghost-hunting tea to be okay?" Bryan asked Reyes

"I feel so violated"

Reyes didn’t respond to Bryan’s question He was looking athis face

"Then," I continued since I still had the floor, "I find out the ADA has a secret file on me and my husband andover me like a shadow that blocks the sun "I had her at the bottom of a well"

I’d fallen down it The well And since I’d been close to popping, anyway, the fall sent ht into labor

"It’s much trickier to have a baby at the bottoht think First, there’s all this dirt you gotta deal with Then you gotta boil water No idea why Then--"

Before I could even finish act 1 of my tirade, I was haphazardly tossed over a shoulder--admittedly a wide one--and carried out of Satellite Coffee like a sack of potatoes Only I’d never actually seen anyone carry potatoes like that

Reyes strapped ressive and just plain sexy I started to turn the key and floor it before he could get in the other side, but one Someone stole it! How on earth was I supposed to drive ho wheel? Then it hit me Maybe that was part of my powers

I concentrated really hard, and Misery purred to life

Oh, hell, yeah