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"They ranted a spot"

"They probably just needed to fill the space and I was the only one anted it"

"Don’t be ridiculous" She opened another drawer and grabbed out a bra

"Would you stop?" I snatched it

She pursed her lips atfor the door "I’ll call you later and check on you Re to pretend I didn’t hear anything about New Orleans," she said as she walked out "That place is a booze-filled insane asyluht dead in a place like that" She shut uilt heated my face

Miracle of miracles, she hadn’t found out about New Orleans She’d happily accepted on and hadn’t bothered to look into it It was the only bit of luck I’d ever been granted

I sagged against ht before for the uative parts, either I ical deaths and the whole "running over dead ic I’d seen, trying to parse each spell’s intention and the way it oven together I co out of the cauldron, trying to determine if any of the co over it all again And then again, until I had all of the different strands stored inin my car with my still-wet purse and packed lunch that I snapped back to reality

What the heck was I doing?

There was no way I was going to work The stranger clearly had no qual in the street as a threat People didn’t play chicken with unhinged ladies and oncoed to lob that spell at ht now Surely he’d show up for round two

Then again, that street had been completely bare He’d somehow sectioned it off and cleared it out He ical standoff he kneas coic It was too finely done to be the others’ work

But even a compassionate outlaouldn’t want a witness

By that reasoning, spending all day around people would be e killing spree to get rid of everyone

There was also the license plate situation I’d driven right at him and then away froits into his head I didn’t kno one went about finding the address of a car’s registration, but in today’s age of technology, it probably wouldn’t be horribly difficult

Yeah, work ht actually be the best bet

A hard rap sounded on the

I juear shift I really needed to work onsomeone over with a parked car was not feasible

Mylady"

"Get out of the road, Ma You’re in your bathrobe, for heaven’s sake"