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“A hunter who an

“—is a hunter who’ll soon be lying in a nice, quiet grave,” Ransom finished, and then, in a hysterical imitation of the weathered Academy trainer, added, “Is that what you want, princess? Is it? I didn’t think so Now, ain

“If he came out here now,” Ransom said, “and told me I had detention and had to do a hundred rounds of the yard on ”

“Me, too,” Ashwini admitted “I think he’s one of the few people on the planet I’m actually scared of”

“Only idiots aren’t scared of Bracken”

“Saki seeular basis An option unavailable to us” Ransoht out in a carry cup “So, Felicity Johnson”

“Were you able to find out anything about her? We know she was a club girl who disappeared after hooking up with a rich sugar daddy”

Ransoed to sneak past the other hunters ere here early—to prep for sessions they were teaching Biting into it, he chewed and sed before answering “That part is right,” he said “A few of the working girls I know said Felicity used to be one of the about a year back”

That fit hen she’d dropped off the grid in terirls said she was vulnerable toin heranother sip of his coffee, he continued “She avoided the piot out fast once she realized the johns ht permanently hurt her if she wasn’t careful Word is she worked under the table cleaning, and was down to her final cents at times, but she didn’t coot into it too deep,” Ashwini said, starting to see more of their victim, “she’d be stuck at the low end forever”

A nod froirls have a hard life and it shows No way to glide into a new, better life if the old one is sta is, none of the woot out, but she never forgot her friends

“She helped out with free babysitting for one of the women two or three times, and when she hooked up with her rich lover, she lent another woman a little money so she could pay for a plane ticket out of town for a faood person, a loyal one, too “When’s the last tio Visit before that, she’d told theo with her lover to Europe, so they didn’t worry about it The other woht she’d made it, had the life she’d alanted” He finished off the doughnut and his coffee at the same ti her as they did, they figured et back in touch once things had eased”