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I hid a smile and Jade see his hands together and striding over to the Caet the horde and zoo rounded up and get our baby pulsed back to life" He lifted his brows together in a coh and move toward him

"So what? Ya old asshole I’s," she crooned to the zombies that flanked her like faithful suitors, "because you say so? Ha!" She threw back her head laughing "No, I think not"

"You obviously htfully "Parker?"

I watched Parker’s ghost of a smile come over his face "Yes, sir?"

Gramps nodded at what he considered a proper response "Clean up this et Caleb’s car out of here" He looked at Jonesy and Bry "Help your sister, Mr Weller"

"Nah, Mac I don’t like those zo hi opponents," Bry said with a look of disgust, his sister’s hand covered in zo off the zo slime

"What are you who do you think you are?" she half-cried, the zombie stew on her clothes Tiff slared at Tiff Tiff glared back, putting a finger in her chest and pushing her "Call off the horde, ya stupid twit before I sick Parker and Hart on ya"

She knocked Tiff’s finger away as a zoot into Tiff’s face and hissed

"I kneas here," she said "It’s not like he’s subtle as shit or soht athis zoether"

I shifted ure off in the distance

"Yeah, Sherlock Holht she was mildly traitorous

"Wonderful, let’s hide the cars," Grauess I won’t kill you today," she said

"You won’t even come close Nevaeh," Parker said

She flashed those oceanic eyes to his, widening theun, his aim steady, his hold one of practiced ease

"Whoa, Parker Settle down ya stroke!" Jonesy said

"Don’t kill the filly for lack of rowled

"Yeah don’t kill her," Tiff said in an unconvincing drawl

Nice

"Parker?" I asked

"I have ade C-M" His thumb moved over the pulse pad of the haed her in the upper chest and Jade screa from contained chaos to shreds in a second

Gramps went for Parker

"Don’t, Mac!" Parker yelled, blocking the first nu out what Parker had done

He swung his face to mine "He knocked her out is all"

"Why didn’t you say so then, punk?"

Parker laughed, rubbing his forearm that had blocked a hard strike

Bet it hurt like a bitch on steroids

"Because, we need to subdue her dead, get the cars off the road and lastly, I need to knohy our organization wants her dead"

I could think of a few reasons but Tiff brought it up first in her special way

"It’s the attitude guys," she said, watching the dead stare without theirat their feet "She’s a bitch on wheels"

"Yeah," Jonesy agreed

I didn’t letmy car pulsed on and h the woods bordering a back road in Kent that only old timers knew about And my friends, of course

Courtesy of Graer I’d seen off in the distance Parker was okay, still working for the Graysheets (so this C-M was his mission For reasons unknown even to him But he hadn’t killed her, instead he’d disobeyed orders to satisfy his curiosity Interesting

I still wanted to knohat the prick Zondorae brothers were up to

No good, I was betting They were consistent as hell

Parker and I worked on the sirl that lay on the ground, dosed with enough tranquilizer to lay out an elephant

Perfect

"Did you think I’d kill her?" Parker asked me quietly as the dead and their stink melted back into the forest while he easily put them to rest

I didn’t respond

He looked at , Caleb It’s a real reversal for me"

"I know," I said

"It may bite me in the ass The Graysheets always have reasons for the missions they want o through with it?" I asked as irlfriend assembled next to the vehicles

"Because I think there’s so about this er on it but I think they’ll be putting me out to pasture soon"

That sounded bad It was an expression Gramps used but I think the context of this was different A pasture that didn’t see the living, only the dead

He searched s correctly he nodded and pointed to the unconscious girl "She’s a threat and we need to knohy"

"Because?"

"Survival," Parker said siave a plaintive wail I watched it lumber to the side of the road where it melted beneath the road’s shoulder

I waited

"Ours," he added, not that I’d needed the clarification

Yeah, I got that Us AFTDs were nets to each other, whether we liked it or not

Tiff toed the girl as she lay there "Gawd, she’s a raging bitch"

Bry and I looked at each other and her eyes narrowed on us

Parker s to do"