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Chapter 1

Hallie, September, New Orleans

"The only reason you want irls in a corset," I said

"Hallie Keep it real" Poe rolled his eyes "I know those aren’t yours"

I launched a thigh-high boot at his head buta black mark on , coirls take a second look Probably as they tried to figure out why he was attractive I chalked it up to his ser, and an unhealthy amount of leather

"Why can’t you just pop in and be done with the whole thing?" I asked

"You have to distract the front et the job done," Poe answered, with a fair a

"I’rumbled as I laced up the other boot, "that there’s no point in being able to teleport if you still need a sidekick I could be doing so

"Don’t call it teleporting It eek factor" He pushed away from the wall "And I like to think of you as et to be Ahed "How can you call yourself British and not knoho--"

"Hurry up You kno he gets e aren’t on ti to Paul Girard, who didn’t like to be kept waiting by anyone, especially his daughter

"Out" I pointed atdressed, and I’ on a free show here"

"Even if I drop a couple of dollars?"

"Not even if you , he tossed my boot back and headed downstairs to , "Brown Eyed Girl"

My eyes were hazel

Poe and I had started circling each other the day we erous way Bonus, he could teleport right into ht us in a "delicate" situation, we’d discovered ere better friends than friends with benefits The fact that ht confir

I continued lacingon er, so chameleon and stay that hen I elve My body was considerably top-heavy for the next couple of years, but there was no one around to i a different shape for too long made me tired, and the novelty wore off, so now, at seventeen, I looked like me unless I was on a job Barely a B cup

I could transmutate, much like Mystique of X-Men fame, but with zero blue skin and ned superior My cells didn’t follow the saenerated constantly I could speed them up or slow them down, manipulate them into different shapes, sizes, even colors Handy in a pinch Or in a theft

Today’s athered--in a different meat suit each time--supported the fact that the shop perfectly fit its nauitars--the usual pawnshop fodder They also displayed the forsaken dreams the items represented, but those outlines weren’t quite as clear