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If ere going to take over the Guild, we’d need the Clerk I flipped through the phone book I had no idea where the Clerk was, but I knehere Lori would be She was his favorite protégé, because, as he had confided to ht, she had more than half a brain Lori’s parents, Karen and Brenda, ran a bakery off Campbellton Road, which was called Sweet Cheeks I remembered because I had stopped by there to buy a cake pop once, and one of her ht it was Brenda, but I wasn’t sure--teased me aboutwith me

Ah, here it is I dialed the number

"Sweet Cheeks Bakery"

"Can I speak to Lori, please?"

"Hi, Kate, what can I do you for?"

Nice to be recognized "You wouldn’t knohere to find the Clerk?"

Lori sighed "You kno he always talked about running a bar when he retires?"

I didn’t, but that didn’t ot hiet a feel for the business"

The Steel Horse was a border bar that sat on the invisible boundary between the Pack and the People’s territory within Atlanta It was a neutral watering hole and I had a lot of pull with its owners "Hypothetically speaking, if someone offered you your old Guild job back, would you be interested?"

There was a pause before an urgent whisper filled et me out of here, I’ll buy your drinks for a year If I have to pipe cream on one more carrot cupcake, I’ll stabup The Steel Horse wouldn’t open for another hour or two

The answering es

I pushed the answering ain

"This is the attendance department of Seven Star Academy Your student, Julie Lennart-Daniels, has beenperiods"

Julie didn’t skip school I went cold

"First"

She wasn’t sick this ht to school