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But Kang ri "It definitely sounds like a possibility" Then he let out a string of curses that o up "Sorry," he said, "but shit like that h on all of us"

I hesitated "You know about the wreck I had, right?" He nodded, which didn’t surprise me Everyone knew about the damn wreck "Well, it was caused by Zeke Lyons, who used to work at--"

"Billings," he said with a nod "I know hier "He was trying to get the body in your van?"

I nodded "And possibly more, I think I mean, he didn’t knoas a zombie until after he’d caused the wreck" Then I snorted "Hell, I didn’t even knoas a zombie until then That was the first tiht back a shiver at the ht beco hi back the lingering unease "He carimaced, "he was a bit of a dick, and he hasn’t been back since"

"You don’t need to fucking give your stash away, Angel," he told me "Zeke knows he can buy from me"

"With what? He doesn’t have a job anyht of that before he screwed up the job he had" He shrugged "But even so, I’d be willing to work soave a slight nod "That’s cool Zeke said he was set up, that he didn’t steal anything" Were you the one who cost hiht I didn’t want to co off

He snorted "Of course The guilty uilty He was lucky they only fired higested "I ue job, I don’t knohat I would have done"

The scowl stayed on Kang’s face as he leaned back "And that’s exactly why there aren’t les, because the next thing you know you have dozens of them, desperate for brains And brains are pretty hard to co a fuss, as you know"

My er, I et brains?"

I could see that Kang wanted to deny it, but I’d already seen the wince of discoet, the less control you have You’re notyou’re not you"

"Have you--" I clamped my lips shut on the question "Neverslow breath and didn’t answer That told ot hungry enough, I wouldn’t si that can be done?" I asked, fuet past this horrific topic "Ilooked up, and it seemed to take hi him out of a terrible place "I don’t know," he said "I don’t exactly have a directory of the local zo "Let’s hope that whoever it is sticks to killing losers and old farts"

A flare of anger coiled in my belly "Wait That’s it? Sit back and hope he doesn’t kill anyone i, that’s bullshit"

"What the hell do you want me to do about it?"

"I don’t know! You’re the expert here You said yourself that this sort of thing could draanted attention to us"

"So wouldstink about deaths that are completely unrelated in every other way There’s no link except for the h to explain away" His face twisted into a sneer "Go on, I dare you to go to the police Tell them that these people were all killed by the same person"

"Go fuck yourself," I said dully I hated hiht

He stood, then leaned forward and put his hands on the table "There’s nothing we can do, Angel Soet worked out It always does This zombie will either htened and spun A second later he was out the door while I stared after hier

Would this zo would it take before people started to wonder about all of the "accidental" deaths? And would anyone ever notice that the victi like a daled disarray

All he needs to do is start hiding the bodies so they aren’t found for a while--enough time for them to decompose Then no one would ever realize that the victims had been killed for their brains Half of this parish is fucking swah to hide a body around here

Of course, that thought also gavein the swamp already? Prey on people ouldn’t be et aith it

The very fact that I orking out how to do it left me nauseated