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FORTY-FIVE

"Aw, da, then realized why I was cold all over That heartless ice-bitch twat had dumped me in the snow in my own front yardpractically the same path I&039;d walked when I left to bury Giselle and this whole weird thing started (Note to self: get the dead cat away fro)

Okay, I was cold, but I was home, and whole, even! And the devil was dead, and Sinclair was safe Probably Ooh, but he was gonna be pissed I&039;d have to figure out how to spin this

It&039;s not soer, sweetie, it&039;sa life-or-death session of Truth or Dare Naw, he&039;d never buy it I had no idea when I practically forced her to leave our bedrooet even more violent! Honest! Nope U to set behind it, so it had to be around 4:30 in the afternoon How long had I been in hell? And why hadn&039;t any of hteen roomies noticed I&039;d been tossed ass over teakettle on the front lawn? Where was-

"Betsy! Hey!" Marc the Zombie had thrown open the front door "Jeez, where&039;ve you been? We&039;ve been looking all over, we&039;ve all been freaking ou-"

Then he was shoved aside and went sprawling alalloping down the porch steps, suit jacket flapping as he raced to raceful husband slipped and skidded to his knees, then seized o instantly nuether and gritted my teeth; fro me "Oh, my dearest queen"

"What? I&039;m fine Are you okay? I&039;m okay Would you believe it was all sort of my plan? Sort of? Don&039;t belovier and dovier than usual "What are you doing? Are you sick? Is there a huge pain in your left ar to your black, black heart?"

His shoulders were shaking He was shakingtre all over Could va up from extreme horniness since we hadn&039;t had sex in almost a week?

"Yeesh, it&039;s not like we&039;ll never have sex again, it&039;s only been a few days Get ahold of yourself Man up"

"How did you ever do it?" He was still on his knees as I cli up at o of my other hand "And hoill I ever be able to show the depths of et up? You&039;re ruining those slacks" This was all very alar? Things should be fine, rong?

His dark gaze was boring into me, his eyes suddenly enor up at htenedthe shit out ofhusband who I occasionally feel like kicking in the balls Please get up"

"I loved you before you did this I would have thought it an impossibility to love you "

I shut up

"I would have died for you before this," he toldon our lawn "Noant to die for you, and would right now, just so I could show even the sratitude And you,spectacular You never think you&039;ve done anything spectacular" He laughed, a deep rolling laugh that didn&039;t go at all with the on-his-knees all-hail-the-queen thing "It&039;s one of the few things you are truly stupid about"

"Well, thanks tons, jerk Can I list a few of the things you&039;re truly stupid about? Thing nu in snoreck your suit Thing nu the last of the strawberries for an eency four a Thing nuht on, and couldn&039;t believe it had taken e I had a lot on o Or a day ago) The sun was setting, not set It was late afternoon It was not full dark

In other words, the sun was shining oninto flames My husband hadn&039;t been able to truly see and feel sunshine for decades; he had said good-bye to the big blazing ball of gas for good when he let Tina kill him Before I loved him, he had allowed himself to be burned alive for love of me And he had always indicated to me that he felt it was a fair trade

No This was a fair trade

"The wish! It worked!" Damn! She&039;d pulled it off I was impressed And terrified God, she&039;d had so much poould I have done if she hadn&039;t wanted to finally die? "Okay I can explain The thing is, Satan owed me a favor, and this is what I came up with" Good-bye forever, Christian Louboutin Volpi Leather Knotted Peep-Toes Sinclair s were too terrible to tell "Okay, but waithow did you know you could run out here in the snow and the sun? Did you-aw,on fire But he disliked worrying about ed, heedless, into sunshine to save ht to save ht Do not Except now you can Okay, but that doesn&039;t ood idea" Wait Fricasseed hen chunks of ravy (Thank you, Food Network!) "Roasted It doesn&039;t ood idea, is what I an, the Food Netas now my porn My wonderful fricassee-filled porn In life I had never once been sexually aroused watching Ina Garten whip up turkey lasagna

With an effort, I tried to focus on the here and now Sinclair wasn&039;t on fire That was huge! And all I had to do was not wish for Louboutin&039;s parents to conceive hi to his Rodarte shoes, his peep-toe puive ured

"A favor? From the devil?" He sobered instantly "And ill it cost, my queen?"

I smiled at him I was ankle-deep in snow, and only a couple of inches away fros who don&039;t respectto kill ood friend was a zo another person to love The devil was dead; long live the devil

All those thingsand I couldn&039;t stop grinning like a chiuredI tended to ignore the big problems in favor of individual victories

"Oh, Elizabeth" He was shaking his head, and a small breeze kicked up and ruffled his dark hair, and sohten it, when he grasped my wrist and planted a kiss in thethis about? What ed, still sive a tin shit"

"Elizabeth Tell me truly: What have you done?"

"Exactly what I had to Every step of the way"

Sinclair narrowed his eyes atin the late sunshine Nohe was definitely narrowing his eyes at me "That wouldn&039;t be another quote from that awful Sin City od! It isn&039;t awful!" I tried to cal to see eye to eye on the purely aweso God" Miller "Okay, well, I killed the devil But it&039;s okay; she was pretty sick of still being alive and always in charge of hell Oh, and Decrepit Me helped by keeping Laura out of it until it was too late Also, Laura&039;s a-pissed at me now That could be a problem for us later"

Sinclair shook his head, not in denial, I knew, but because it was a lot to take in "I do not-all right, beloved, you can take h it-and that explains what happened to the Book of the Dead"

"Oh, ? It had applied for several credit cards in ? The horror "Tellbad," he was quick to assure, "onlyto risk a little insanity if ithim in the nose "Are you insane, Sink Lair? Oh Wait"