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"You’re not wrong Letmyself be more or less sed up by the couch I was exhausted, but the pain inbrainasleep

Guns Our probleuns Very few people in the LA Old World used theuns were a hassle They could malfunction, they needed to be serviced, you had to have special licenses and permits to carry them, and so on Why mess with all that when you could rip someone’s throat out with your hands? Maybe they were a part of the Old World in a city that wasn’t more or less peaceful, but in LA the only real threat to any of us usually came from humans And even the witches had

For a second I started daydreanet that could suck in firearms, maybe, or bulletproof suits of ariven area--

On the floor byat ht"

Jesse raised his eyebrows I pointed to the bargest "We’re gonna need to bring our secret weapon"

Chapter 39

I had been planning to leave Shadow at Will’s house to guard Katia, but there was just no way Jesse and I were going to be able to take down the MC creithout her

We talked through it, but it was unlikely the MC knew about Shadow Theyto the trap at Frederic’s house--I couldn’t remember if she’d barked, but it was certainly possible--but the only biker who’d survived had been Carl, the guy with the greasy beard and the ventilated cowboy boot And he’d been inside the garage for the whole fight There was no way he could have seen Shadow

Having the bargest along, and a surprise, changed the odds fro" Especially if Molly was functional enough to fight too Noe just had to get there before Oskar killed her

Of course, this also uard, which I didn’t totally love I believed her when she said she wanted to ed her mind? Lex already knew about Katia and was on her way, so if Katia sent us into a trap, she could still get what she wanted Actually, it would be a pretty sht side, she’d recently been dead, so I couldn’t see her physically co after us I just needed to make sure she couldn’t call anyone Will had a landline at his house, so I went into his bedroo more than a little unco over that the roons of creepy sex stuff or dirty underwear I unplugged the phone to take with me Then I went into his horabbed a couple of pieces of paper and a pencil to bring to Jesse As I took the phones out to the van, Jesse looked up the Mock-Donald’s on Google Earth In the tiure out how to input an address, he had a rough sketch of the building and its entrances

"Okay, look," he said, pointing with the pencil eraser "Green Drive runs along the north and west sides of the building, see? There’s one entrance on the north side, two on the west side, and one each on the other two sides" I leaned over him to look at the sketch The Mock-Donald’s was basically a rectangle, with the shorter end at the north side "I can’t be positive, but it looks on thisinto the kitchen"

"What about the inside?" I asked

"Hang on a second" He did a little ed to come up with a website for the production coe filled with big glossy photos of the interior

"Whoa," I said, leaning forward to look at his little phone screen "Why would they have so ," Jesse said without looking attables and counters to the sketch "If they’re renting it out to anyone with the cash, they need to be able to show clients what they’ll get Hey, look" He ers to zoom in on a picture of a staircase "There’s a baseh, there was a downstairs with classrooreen roohed Up until recently, it was incredibly rare for buildings in LA to have a base, now that base I’ve even read about people who had base houses to add space