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He had him there John looked properly chastened

"Yes, it doesn’t an, "I read a study that said the sexual appetites anda bubble When she recovered she said, "Just no"

Alex frowned and shut hisHis gaze narrowed on her "This froave a siving it consideration, rin

Archer said to Jonesy, "This is all so entertaining All the ti any?" he said, nodding

Everyone looked at Jade and I

Hell

Jade blushed so hard I thought her skin had changed per my embarrassment with a supreme effort, "the deal is what to do about Clyde? We are here in the hideaway to couys about " I paused here for phrasing purposes, "Gale’s compulsion to visit Clyde is not the point"

"Secondary?" John clarified

I nodded "That’ll work"

"Second," Jonesy continued, raising a finger

Huh Jonesy the locoht

"He’s not really dead anymore" Jonesy looked at us

I shook uys He is definitely dead Done Lights out Taking a dirt nap " I looked up at the ceiling of cars, trying to think of additional idiootcha" Jonesy rolled his eyes just as Sophie squeezed through the opening

"Hi!" she said "What did I h and Bry put his face in his hands

"What?" she asked

Jonesy said, "And three," he nodded to Sophie in greeting, "Gale is AFTD but she round"

Bry nodded, scrubbing his face then said, "No

Sophie gave a confused look to the group "Boy, I definitely ca on?"

Jonesy bit into so half the Snicker’s bar right off Through a mouthful he said, "Gale wants to do the nasty with Clyde"

I slappedGale’s honor "She’s been going to the cerave and, well, I don’t know exactly what it’s all about" I leveled a spiteful look at Jones

He shrugged

"That’s really weird, Caleb," Sophie said, a look of distaste puckering her fully glossed lips

Jonesy stuck his palm out like, see what I’otten terribly off topic," John said, centering the group

"Oh, I don’t know, I like the first part I’m thinkin’ we should let that romance develop," Jonesy said and winked at Sophie

"Ee!" Sophie said

Tiff frowned "What’s wrong about it?"

Alex smiled

Everyone blanched at her coross but let’s address that soes his battery" She popped off the an to circle the area of their confined space, the ceiling cavernous, the floor space barely adequate "Caleb raised Clyde right?" I nodded slowly, a dawning horror of revelation just out of reach "Then you jerked hiround how many times after that?" She looked a question at me

I didn’t know, I’d lost count

Her eyes narrowed "You don’t even kno many now, do ya?"

I shook ain What would you think if sorave?"

I thought of Clyde the last tirave, the wind lifting his hair as the rain pelted his clothes to his skin The body he possessed alive, the one that held ownership now, his death signature a singing tone in my brain

"Who wants to believe Parker, raise their hand," Jade said

Nobody did

"Okay," Tiff pegged us with her eyes "I’ll give you that, he’s a rinned, continuing, "But he had so our way"

"Yeah, liketheir own shit," Jonesy hed "Yeah"

"It doesn’t answer the question of what to do," I said

The group was quiet for a second Then Jade offered, "I don’t think it’s up to us Iherself to say it

"Coulped

"See," she began, "it’s really none of our business, right? I ainst the law?"

Sophie shifted uncomfortably "Yet"

She had a point

Jonesy looked at Sophie "They have any more idea about the attacker, Soph?"

She stared at hi?" Jade asked

She shook her head, her soft hair bouncing around with theso hot Proctor’s up ave hihed "Not literally, ya perv"

Jonesy pointed at Sophie and said, "Yeah, what she said"

Alex laughed

Archer said, "Like I said before: obsessed about sex And it appears that ith ass obsession"

"Speak for yourself, Lewis," Jonesy said

"Anyway," Sophie said, "I don’t think he’s that worried, he’s Level Five so what does he care? He’s all Mr Confident because he got to Auy could do the deed But it was close," Sophie said, her hand going to herit entirely while her aqua eyes held water

Lots of it

Jonesy, not one to knohat to do if the water fell said quickly, "What’s that sch about it?"

It shut down the allared at hi for

"Listen, there aren’t two or three Buddy’s He is aware of it, he spends tiuy didn’t have it," Jonesy said and Sophie rolled her eyes

Credit where it was due, I thought "Well, he’s got soonna have to bring it" Re that I didn’t get uys were silent, they’d been there

"Sorry Caleb," Sophie said

"Don’t worry about it," I said, thinking she could have better taste She didn’t know it, but Jonesy was perfect for her Of course, Jonesy hadn’t woken up to that little fact either