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"Get her!" Sandy screeched, but Frank was trying to breathe around the blood and broken cartilage Jack didn’tin Peri’s hand
Peri held Jack before her like a shield, his body ar to me?" she demanded as Frank sat up and Sandy ran to hiht now!"
"Three years," Jack said dully
Three years? Their entire relationship? She could hardly think, she was so angry
"Sure, go ahead, but leave the gun here," Peri heard Frank say to Sandy, napkins pressed to his face The tiny woman s, Sandy threw a side kick over Jack’s head Her foot hit Peri square on, shoving her backward and dazing her Sandy screae Instinct moved Peri and she dropped Jack’s Glock to catch Sandy’s foot, but Sandy jerked it free before Peri could break her ankle
Sandy crouched to attack, fingers crooked to gouge and teeth clenched The luot to a kneel Her fingers twined in Sandy’s luscious black hair and she sla Peri in the gut as Peri pounded her head again She’d alondered if she could take the little dragon down Looked like Sandy had entertained the saood hit in, Peri had to let go Both woled to breathe, hunched as she wiped the blood fro to the locked front door, the little pissant Panting, Sandy touched her lip to find it bleeding Seeing the hair-twined chopstick in Peri’s grip, Sandy’s eyes narrowed
"Allen, will you just shoot her!" Frank shouted, and Sandy rushed Peri with a high-pitched howl Peri swung, that stupid chopstick set to gouge Sandy blocked her, dropping back to the bar and scra atop it
"Not me," Allen said as he tossed the rifle to Frank, the stock sht remember, and I want out when this is done"
"I don’t want her reriered to fuel the intuition and there’d be mistrust, even if she couldn’t place why
"You spoiled, entitled little girl!" Sandy shouted fro You have sood, and all you do is bitch about it when you lose a littleyou a fucking favor! Love?" Sandy shrieked "There is no such thing as love!"
Teeth clenched, Peri slipped her six-inch blade from her boot with her other hand and threw it at Sandy It wouldn’t hurt her much, but all Peri wanted was for her to shut up
"No!" Frank cried as Sandy gasped, twisting to avoid the knife She fell behind the bar and into theit Bottles rained dohen the shelves collapsed
"Jack, no!" Allen shouted, and Peri staggered when a gun popped So the sound of Jack’s Glock, Peri looked at the blood seeping fro beside the door The ered The chopstick in her hand clattered to the floor, and she clutched the table Shock took her down She hit the floor hip first, then collapsed Twin pains, one in her skull, the other in her chest, throbbed in agony as she stared at the black ceiling Her fingers arhed, scared when it caain
"Jump," Jack said wearily as he stood over her and holstered his weapon "Go on and draft I like you better when you’re stupid"
"What are you doing? You’re her anchor!" Allen exclai a wad of those stupid napkins onto her chest JackShe had tiest she’d ever drafted was forty-three seconds If she staved it off longer than that, it wouldn’ther," Allen protested "It was going to be hard enough with Sandy or Frank doing it!"
Oh God She was going to ju to be able to draft a day, an hour "I won’t," Peri said, teeth clenched against the pain "I’ll die first" She coughed again, the ragged sound filling her with fear that she was tearing her lungs to shreds
"If she dies, Bill is going to be pissed" Hunched and wiping the blood fro behind the bar saying she was okay Peri hated the her, his eyes soft, and even that sht her to tears His eyes are so pretty, she thought, deciding that his long nose suited hi on anyone else, and his thin hands were blessedly warm She wouldn’t draft, not even to save her life Bill would just have to deal with it
"Peri, draft," Allen said, and she blinked, wondering why his beautiful brown eyes were scrunched up as if he were the one in pain "You can’t do anything when you’re dead"
"What, and have all this go away?" she rasped "Eat shit and die"