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"I’d like that"

Bria smiled "Me too"

My sister’s ser these days The tension and anger in her had eased as well, and her eyes weren’t quite as dark and haunted as they had been before She was slowly getting over the torture she’d suffered because of Mab, just like I was coping hat Dekes had done toeach other heal and move on with our lives

That isn’t to say it was all s After all, I was still an assassin, and Bria was still a cop The push and pull between our two chosen professions would always be there, but there was more to us than that now There wasto beco sisters

Still, I knew that no es we faced, ould do so together

And that was all that really mattered

Eventually, Bria polished off the rest of her sweet tea and headed out toto call me to in the door, so Sophia and I started closing down the Pork Pit for the night while aited for the few folks left inside to finish up their rabbed the last of the day’s trash bags and stepped out into the alley behind the restaurant

The darkness greeted hts The oil and grease on the pavement, the crack in the wall opposite the Pork Pit, the soft, slowto get the jued much since I’d been back in Ashland The underworld was still in tur forout the Spider I’d seen a few of the eyes, but no one had tried to kill me - until noasto start up again

I threw the trash bags into one of the Du around tonight

"Y’all ht as well come on out," I said "I know you’re there I can s!" an indignant voice drifted out of the shadows

There was a loud sound, like so smacked upside the head Then another voice let out a low hts exactly

But the two men knew their cover was blown, so they stepped out fronized theain