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"You can’t have years Lia to help her I can get on board with that" Nate nodded thoughtfully "But if Teague’s her ue isn’t involved in her life She lives with her dad, and he has a badass reputation Sort of a … mobster"
"A mobster who’s the true head of Chronos," Michael added
"So you’re going to New Orleans to hter, and this requires short hair and a beefcake, hipster vibe?" Nate didn’t sound convinced
"It requires that I look responsible This guy has to take et And I’m not a hipster"
"Hipstercrite, ue looking for the Infinityglass if the Infinityglass is her daughter? Surely she knows?"
"Teague wasn’t looking for the Infinityglass She was looking for Jack, as looking for the Infinityglass," Michael explained "Teague was either trying to keep Jack away fro else she wanted on the Skroll"
"It sounds like Teague is protecting her daughter" Nate leaned back on two chair legs again "Why are you going to New Orleans? Why not just ue isn’t to be trusted, including her husband Liam talked to hiht be staying" I ran my hand over my head "Hence the hairdo"
A sudden blast of h to bounce a couple of pencils off my desk
Grateful for the interruption, I asked, "Is that …?"
"New Kids on the Block," Nate said, already dancing in his chair
I looked at Michael "E to make me spin around, isn’t she?"
"Oh no,to make you twirl"
Five days later, Lia for the Nashville airport
The blasting heat inside the cab hten An early winter had settled into rees on Halloween, twenty-nine the next day, and it hadn’t warmed up much since
"Not to mess with your creaky old-man bones," I said, "but I’m already a sweat puddle"
Liam smiled and turned the heat down "You don’t need to worry"
"I’ht have believed it myself if my voice hadn’t cracked in the middle of the sentence "Are you sure about this?"
"I aeted with the seat belt, pulling it above and below my shoulder to find a comfortable position Finally, I just sat on my hands to keep theet truly comfortable, anyway
Lialass paradigm from object to human has been difficult"