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After the plainclothes got to Cookie’s apartht out Misery Cook would have a busy day with everything I’d thrown at her, and I had enough to do to keep me busy for minutes Probably half hours

I needed a man A man I could push around and shout orders to like a military commander I needed a roup who’d visited hell Besides Reyes, of course I excavatedfor the keys to Misery, which were brand-new and not like my old keys at all, and headed that way I unlocked Misery with the fob That was new, too Misery had never had re She’d been old school Stick the key in Turn I was surprised I didn’t have carpal tunnel with all the sticking and turning But now, I just pushed a button It was so Jetsons Isound every ti the door, I tried to clihty-pound Rottweiler hadn’t been sitting in the driver’s seat

"Arte as fast as bus flutter, "you can’t drive The last time you drove, we almost killed a mail wheel, her huge brown eyes pleading

I leaned over and checked Mr Andrulis He didn’t seem to mind Artemis I rubbed her ears "Okay, look, I know traditionally your species and the , but we can’t kill theet them" I was never sure if she did that on purpose or not

She let out a loud bark, indicating soaze wander in that direction and realized we had coray hoodie and fatigues stood watching us Well, enially before turning back to Arteirl, you have to move"

"I’ll wash it for you," the guy said, taking a couple of steps forward I’d recently had a gun to ans froender I reached into a side pocket of ers around Margaret, my Glock

"I’ He was clean, his clothes almost new

"Your Jeep I can wash it I have a side business" He took another step toward me and handed ular paper, then cut out with scissors Apparently by a preschooler

"Well, thanks, we’re good for now"

"You wouldn’t happen to have a couple of bucks on you?" he asked, sniffing into a knit fingerless glove

"You take a few steps back, and I’ll look"

"Really?" he asked, excited "Thanks" He stepped back, and I once again excavated aze slide past hi a lot of odd encounters with homeless people of late Well, lots of my encounters with houy threw a ht I didn’t even do anything to that h n from God Maybe he wantedoutside the box with this one, maybe they were all some kind of elaborate setup to take pictures of me with these people, so that they could later blackhts wouldn’t have veered in quite that direction, but they did this tie sedan parked down the street with a wide-angle ca that sae sedan a lot lately, too

He seemed to have snapped the shots he wanted He lowered the cah the shots when I knocked on hisHard

He ju surprised

"Who the fk are you?" I said, practically screa down

Of course, there was an added benefit to screaarner the attention of anyone who happened to be close by If he came at me, I’d have witnesses

I took two quick seconds to scan the area Probably soer who could’ve had an AK-47 stashed in his undies, for all I knew Luckily, there was a e of a little café that sat beside Calamity’s He paused froh I guess the only thing he sensed, the thing that called him to me, was a spike in adrenaline I tried to stay calht ith all our sexual energies colliding like atoms in the sun And then there were the men in masks Add to that the whole toothpaste debacle, and Reyes should be about as exhausted as I was

I refocused on the paparazzi "What the fk, dude?" I yelled when he turned to put his canition, and for so so catlike and all--I tried to open the door I had every intention of dragging hi the truth out of him Thankfully his door was locked, because at so ine roared to life, and before I could utter another curse word, he peeled out, narrowlymy toes