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“I really don’t get what you see in hiruers for Keanu Reeves, but with the for a more distinct likeness to John Wick

He was just had this terrifying way of looking at a person, Frankie thought unco dropped dead in the middle of a sniper rifle’s crosshairs

Inside the shop were bookshelves standing a dozen feet tall and reaching all the way to the ceiling Ladders on rollers were on every side, and in one corner was a reading area with ed in black steel

After placing her tote bag under the counter, Blake joined her friend at the table, where Frankie already had their ho coffee from a flask

“Mmm” Blake took an appreciative whiff of the salad, which was Frankie’s specialty “I smell truffle”

“All thanks to you,” Frankie answered

“Me?” The answer bewildered Blake, and the areater puzzle

“I got my recruitment bonus last Friday” It had been twice the usual a how their local John Wick had rejected over twenty job candidates in just one week

No Next She won’t do He had Frankie clin to explain what his darn criteria was By the time Thornton threw Candidate 31’s resume into the rubbish bin, she had been ready to quit and was about to tell Mayor Winterbourne to find so

It had been Blake, whosefrom tearful to panicky as she relayed her dilemma to Frankie in a choppy jurandmother had suffered a mild stroke, and it had left Amanda partially paralyzed The quickest and surest way for Ao therapy at a nursing home and enjoy round-the-clock medical supervision

This, however, would cost a lot of money, and the only way they could afford it was to sell Arandmother refused to even consider the idea, worried as she was about ould happen to Blake

‘Do you know of any job that co, Frankie? The job I have doesn’t payrent I could use the extra money for Granny’s needs’

And that when Frankie had her lightbulbBlake to call her back with hopefully good news, she had walked back into her office and heard herself say, ‘I have one last candidate for you to meet Blake’s someone I can personally recommend—‘

‘He’s hired Have hiht’

Frankie had alht ahead and quit as planned, Thornton would have been her first failure – the one and only ti a task that Mayor Winterbourne had given her