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A knock at the door had both of us glancing that way

"It’s your friend," he said, annoyance edging his voice

"Cookie?" She never knocked

"The other one"

"I have more than two friends, Reyes"

"I heard that," Garrett said as I opened the door His weapon was drawn before my next heartbeat I totally needed to learn to do that "Where is he?" He barged past me and scanned the area

Reyes was still there I could feel him I just couldn’t see him anymore, and Garrett certainly couldn’t see hiun would hardly be of benefit in a shoith the son of Satan "He’s not here"

Garrett turned to ht we had a deal"

"Calm down, kemosabe," I said as I closed the door and strode past hi hole I needed caffeine "His corporeal body isn’t here His incorporeal body has scurried off to sulk"

I heard a distant growl as I searched out , the one that said EDWARD PREFERS BRUNETTES

"You’re drinking coffee this late in the evening?"

"It’s either this or a fifth of Jack"

"And this whole thing with Farrow’s corporeal body, his incorporeal body … it’s kind of freaking et a hit on Dead Trunk Guy?" I asked, just as Cookie walked through the door in her pajamas

"Oh," she said, surprised we had coe"

"Don’t be ridiculous," I said, frowning at her "It’s just Swopes"

"Right," she said, covering her brsts self-consciously Like we could see any le squeaked out of her as she strolled toward the coffeepot

It was about tiot to know each other She’d had a crush on Garrett since the day he sauntered into my office on Uncle Bob’s heels They’d been in theroom, aka, Cookie’s office, so Ubie could ask me in private if I had any info on a hts That was before Garrett found out the truth about me I don’t knohat they’d talked about, but Cookie was never the saain, it could have been the fact that she was alone for a solid ten minutes with a tall, ray of his eyes shine like silver in the sun

He grinned, knowing exactly what he did to her, what he did toon the club chair that cattycornered arten teacher," he said, apparently answering my question about what he’d found on Cookie’s car as I added enough creanizable