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"Couldn&039;t they shut the goddamn cupboards?"

As Adrian stood in Veck&039;s kitchen, he stared across the e as the poor bastard closed shit with hard claps

On so - and that included not just someone else&039;s drawers, cabinets and closets, but the war in general The only thing likely to get his attention was if Devina showed up again, but that deood thing

Next to hi to put the house back together When the detective went upstairs, the savior glanced over

"Devina had betterto explode"

Ad grunted in agreement "But not much we can do about it"

He and Jiation and the lie detector test and the further interro, until Ad had beco out of the police station In the end, however, Veck had been released All the cops had against hiraph in, there was not enough to charge hiht-hour detainer

Good news on some level - better to have the shoith Devina away from all those uniforms But the detective was pushed to his limit, and Adrian knew all too hat that was like

Abruptly unable to stay still, Ad went over to the refrigerator and cracked the thing Not much inside - no surprise there - but even if there had been a boatload of lo mein, he didn&039;t have any i was just so he did out of habit at this point

Matter of fact, he&039;d heard once that there were stages of grief Was he in depression now? He certainly wasn&039;t as pissed off as he had been when Eddie had firstwhatevered At the s and the sense that he was dragging a river barge behind hi his head, he deliberately put that shit out of his ht now -

Too bad the resolution didn&039;t stick

Glancing over at Jiht left alone?"

"Veck needs the space"

"Wasn&039;t talking about him"

"You mean Eddie?" Jim crossed his arms and cursed After a moht Devina&039;s not incented to fuck with hi as he&039;s with us, it&039;s an open wound that won&039;t heal She takes the body or co"

Ad walked over to theand looked out Five o&039;clock and the light was just starting to drain from the sky

Man, he was ju kept"

"But I uy pounded his chest with his fist - "I&039; to know"

Ad paced around a little, feeling like he had ants on the inside of his skin Eventually, heto head over there and check on hiht back - "

Jim stepped in front of hio down"

"Ten minutes"

"This is exactly what she wants You need to realize that"

Adrian didn&039;t want to throith the guy They already had enough te WWE with the attitude - and Ad had enough sense to know that he was unstable hi out with the flip of a coin

But he couldn&039;t shake the abrupt need to return to the garage

"Look, I&039;ll be right back Promise" He met the savior&039;s eyes with his own "I swear on Eddie&039;s soul"

"Goddaree reement, Ad spirited hiarage&039;s front lawn, he knew he&039;d been right to come: there was another presence inside the apartht er and -

"What the hell?" hehis weapon

At that moment, Colin opened the door at the top of the staircase and stepped out onto the landing "That would be &039;Heaven,&039; thank you very el was not in naht in: loose pants and a tight shirt And he was alone, at least as far as Ad could sense thnt>

"What are you doing here?" Ad asked, even though he knew there was only one explanation

"Watching TV"

Adrian went over to the bottom of the stairwell "Jiine how dissatisfied I auard him?"

"He knows I&039;ed direction, shifting so it ca along the invisible currents, weaving in and out of the gusts, was a subtle groaning sound

"Fucking Bitch" Adrian nailed Colin with his stare "You stay with Eddie"

"Thank you for the order," Colin said dryly "But that is why I came"

"Yeah Sorry"

There was no time to kiss ass any further: As the wind intensified and thesounds turned into shrieks, Ad didn&039;t just curse Devina and her warlords - he wanted to kick hioing to happen: The pair of the with a bunch of soulless, boneless bastards as Jim undoubtedly handled the actual crossroads

He&039;d played right into the de to have to stay in her pal now: Colin was powerful, but there were limits - and they&039;d already lost Eddie once

Not going to happen again

Moving fast, Adrian flashed into the garage Over in the truck, there was a duffel full of leather riding gear, and he quickly yanked on studded gloves that went all the way up his forearms, and then pulled out the black duster Eddie had used for long trips on the bike

On his way out, he passed by a pitchfork - and doubled back to grab it Shit knew he felt like stabbing the crap out of so - and he&039;d just seen how much fun lawn tools could be

When he stepped outside again, Colin was nowhere in sight, which was good ti and exactly what he wanted: All around,into eyeless killers that were just his fucking cup of tea

Adrian inflated his lungs until his chest stung and then he let out a war cry that shook the tree li them back so far a few of them even snapped

And then he went in

Locking a death grip on the ooden handle, he lunged forward, nailing the closestthe tool heavenward - until it jacked right into the rib structure of the torso With the tines locking in place, it was a case of up-and-over as he slung the bastard into left field like it was a bale of hay Then it was the s the business end under his arhs

Adrian wheeled around, yanked out the tool, and went over the head, bringing the curved spikes down laterally on the crippled bastard They penetrated through the face, such as it was, and went into the chest cavity frohter to a

Disengaging again, widened his stance and angled hi to split his attention got what they were asking for: Keeping his head straight forward, he measured them in the peripheral vision of both eyes

He was banking on a third co obvi

Flexing his knees, he threw hiuessed right about - and then stabbing it in the back and twisting hard As the iistered, theto the point where he had to disengage and get gone ping around the side of the thing, he ducked into hiround on a roll

When he sprang up onto his feet, he was prepared to take on the other two