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"Cook, the last time Mrs Allen checked on her, A, "It wasn’t Mrs Allen’s fault She was just trying to check up on Amber"

"In the dark, with a her hair in curlers and a Scandinavian mud mask on her face Amber tried to run from her and ran face-first into a doorjamb I’ll never understand why Mrs Allen didn’t just turn on a light"

"It’s okay" She patted one now, and I’ve asked Mrs Allen to just knock and wait for the plainclothes to answer the door"

"And you think that’ll work, do ya?" I chuckled It sounded e of psychosis that I was going for, but it worked I pointed to her closet "Pants? Not that I don’t appreciate a nice pair of pantaloons as irl, but ave A trek back to my place Five steps later, I pried e froave Reyes had patched it temporarily--at least I could open and close it now--but I’d need a new doorfrath Of course, he hadn’t considered the fact that h it I rightedwas different about my apartment What could it be?

Oh, yeah My place had been ransacked Son of a bitch Every drawer I could see had been turned inside out Every ite! Didn’t we talk about this? You are the worst guard ever"

The scene was strangely fa else had been disturbed Only the living room and kitchen had been upended The intruder must have found what he wanted and--

Zeus!

I ran to h the knife drawer Carefully, because it was the knife drawer I figured hiding the dagger in a drawer full of kitchen knives was ingenious I rong It was gone

It would seem that one Mr Dealer of Souls had decided to visit while I was out The little shit He’d pay Literally I wasn’t cleaning up this , andand went to confront a de Arteh for el I was headed to the last place I’d seen the Dealer and asked Angel where the Daeva lived I’d assu to Angel, I was right

Arte than the seat Mr Andrulis had recently vacated I was going to miss that man As a result of Artemis’s fussiness, I drove down Central and up San Mateo with a fully grown Rottweiler on my lap until I reached a residential district off a side street She caught sight of a cat--the horror!--and bound offmy ovaries, Beam Me Up and Scotty, as a launchpad I had to ad like what I’d expected It was kind of nice, for one thing, with xeriscaping in front and rich terra-cotta walls with thick wood trim I walked up to a carved natural wood door with a patina knocker shaped like a deer skull, but he opened the door before I could use it

"I want the dagger back"

A smile that was so pretty, it stunned eous No doubt about it He wasn’t wearing the top hat It sat perched on a wall hook just inside the door And his long black hair hung just a tad past his shoulders