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Chapter One

Canned laughter roared froround noise as she cleaned the kitchen after preparing her food for the week It was her Sunday night routine to prepare her lunches to take to work for the week, so she could cut the cost of eating out and its effects on her waistline The doorbell rang and startled her A quick check of the clock told her it was a little after nine thirty, too late for the few people she knew to be visiting Pulling a very large knife fro room, and just above the car co called The voice should have reassured, but it didn’t That voice had only ever brought her trouble With a curse, she went back to the kitchen and slid the knife back into the block and then went back to the front door

Opening the door she left the chain on “What do you want, Peter?”

“Aw, co to let me in? What the hell kind of sister have you become?”

“The kind of sister you made me The kind that doesn’t trust you in my home Tell o away”

“Miranda, please, this isn’t a joke”

“I have never joked about the clusterfuck that is what you ain would I give you another dollar to help you out of a ain I said it and I meant it I want you to leave, now”

“Please, this is life or death here It’s al up every day All I needed was ten grand for this in-and-out job, but my partner skated on et the ether I’rand, and he toldfor me

My time is up, you areto kill me These aren’t the kind of people you play with I fucked up I went to so up The last person who didn’t pay back Declan Kelly noalks with a limp I swear, I wouldn’t be here if I had any other options”

“You borrowed uess, a little breaking and entering and theft on a jewelry store, like the last ti to break into someone’s home and steal from them, the way you stole from me the last time I let you into my home? What the fuck is the e with Dad You could have hired on at the garage You were so good you could have opened your own shop

I can’t even believe I’e of cars, why didn’t you go into ripping off cars? No, you have to rob banks You have to break into a business with people involved and try and carry off e safes

Was this a job you came up with, or was it the friend who skated out on you after you got the money? Was he really a friend or just souy, or are you so stupid and so unwilling to work for anything you said yes to so about?” The look on his face told her what she needed to know, and she was tired, so damned tired, of his bullshit

First you’re going to be killed and then you’re going to ith a limp Which one is it exactly? Peter, I’ with you, and this conversation is over” Miranda closed the door and leaned against it, her heart hurting over the need to push him away,that she had to protect herself fros to be between them

“He knows about you! Declan Kelly knows all about you, and that you have the ive it to me, he’ll come for it himself!”

Reh her, and she was tre in, and caht of him went down easily He was thin and wiry, without a well-defineddragging me into your bullshit?”