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THIRTY-FOUR

We&039;d finished our sone when Sinclair decided to ruin everything and bring up bad shit again

"My ohy do you insist on behaving as if you do not have the skills to rule us?"

"Umbecause I don&039;t?" Sinclair was usually smarter than this And nakeder than this Wait That wasn&039;t right I really, really needed to have sex with hi ridiculous Alht Your track record&039;s not that bad," Jessica said, probably thinking she was soothing me

"My track record blows"

"Nuh-uh"

"Yuh-huh"

"You did only set that poor kid&039;s ghost free after how many decades?"

I remembered the kid God, she&039;d scared the shit out of me I hadn&039;t known until then I could see the deadthe real dead, ghosts, not just vampires I&039;d been terrified of her And the kidshe&039;d just been sad

"And then you got rid of a serial killer-"

"Laura did that," I objected "I was the one cowering in the corner with the last victiure out where it all rong in our lives Laura&039;s the one ung into action" And then some I&039;d nearly thrown up when I sahat she&039;d left of hiht?

Nobody had that coured out that evil old librarian had kidnapped Sinclair-"

"Okay, that I will take credit for," I admitted "I did eventually realize in between , and after finding a caterer, I got around to killing her eventually"

"For which I was grateful, ht face, but I could sense the save hi dozens of incompetent fuckups"

"And you didn&039;t let the olves kill all of us when Antonia died The Werewolf Antonia," Jessica added because, stop me if you&039;ve heard this, there were two hell-bound Antonias in my life "In fact, the WIC kind of liked you Werewolf in Charge," she added before Marc could ask "And then you got the devil to let Antonia be alive again!"

Well Yeah

"See?"

Maybe

"Don&039;t forget, prettyyou did was kill that Nostro creephow bad was that guy? And you killed him and took over"

"It was a little more complicated than that," I said, "and I wasn&039;t alone, Sinclair and Tina-"

"And you totally saved Garrett"

"Well, yeah-"

"And you saved Dickie&039;s life that tionna-"

"Um, I didn&039;t" Witches? I&039;d never uys, I appreciate what you&039;re doing, but all you&039;ve proven is that I should seek psychiatric help, not that I should be running the joint By which I mean the world, eventually"

"And you tried to save the other Fiends after you saved Garrett It wasn&039;t your fault they-"

"Were disgusted with htful fury?"

"Well, you found out your sister was the Antichrist," the Antichrist reminded me "And you took that pretty well"

If iant tantrum when I found out she o inches taller and ten timesto be nice It wasn&039;t their fault they were coht I soet out of this kitchen," Jessica announced "Am I the only one who feels like we&039;ve been in here half a day?"

"You have to ad"

"Nope I don&039;t"

Laura shrugged "Okay, but there&039;s just one other thing I want to get cleared up"

"Aw, shit!" Jessica sat up straight and put a hand on her belly, looking puzzled "What was that?"

"Gas? You&039;ve eatenu, I think" Multiple srapes on top of the Peanut Buster Parfait on top of the Filet-O-Fish on top of the Cinnabon with extra frosting

"I don&039;t think it&039;s gas" She rubbed her stoas You said yourself you&039;re not due until next suht you were due next month," Marc commented

"It depends on where I am," Jessica explained, like that would ht-headed froh carbs? Too ht be in labor"

"No you&039;re not You are not! This is not a wacky preht sitconant, and you are not in labor!"