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"No, because they’ve hated us all along and were only looking for the right excuse to keep our fat asses and fanny packs out of their countries forever"

Liam chose that exact moment to reappear, four Styrofoa fast, almost at a run I leaned over and popped the door open for him, and he all but dumped the containers on an, trying to keep the hot food froine started with a snarl, and suddenly ere rocketing backward With the sheet blocking the back , Liaate us down the road and up into the small back alley that divided the Waffle House froainst the door as he steered the oldlot tucked away in a dead-end around the corner Theall four of us forward

"We’re…going to stay here for a little while," he announced to our terrified faces "Don’t panic, but I think I saw…I mean, it’ll just be safer here for a bit"

"You saw her" It wasn’t a question; Chubs already knew the answer before he asked "Lady Jane"

Liam rubbed the back of his neck as he leaned forward He had left the nose of the h so we could peer around Waffle House’s wall to see down the alleyway "Yeah I’ht up with us?

"Holy hell," Chubs squawked "Pretty sure or definitely sure?"

After a ot a new set of wheels--a white truck--but I’d recognize that s face anywhere"

"Did she see you?" I asked

"I don’t know," he said "Probably not, otherwise she and whoever her new boy toy is would have tried to run "

I craned h past the wall of the restaurant to the alley opening As if on cue, a glinting white truck rolled by, two dark figures in the front seats Liaainst our seats at the exact sa at each other in alarm I don’t think either of us took a breath until ere sure no one was coate

He cleared his throat "Um…how about you pass out the food? I’ll just check--"

"Liam Michael Stewart," Chubs’s voice thundered from the backseat, "if you step one foot out of this minivan, I will order Green to run you doith it"

"Don’t think I won’t," I warned, knowing exactly what Lia down the alley to make sure the coast was clear When I handed him a Styrofoa defeat