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It was a tenuous link, but it was a link directly to the Quarter “Do you re else?”
“Nobut I did ask her why she didn’t point out her rich john to us, you know, on the sly”
“Aaliyah!” Sina’s mouth fell open “You never told us that”
“I didn’t want to make Felicity look bad, ’cause heroff her tears using the sleeve of her black coat, she said, “Jerkoff told her that if she even hinted they were involved before he took her to Europe for a makeover so she’d ‘fit his lifestyle,’ the whole deal was off Felicity wanted it soeven us”
A pause before Aaliyah added, “It eirdFelicity never had a piot into her head like a pimp does, made her believe the whole ‘daddy’ shtick”
That he was o, that if he had to be cruel, it was because Felicity had let hih, did we?” Carys asked, blunt and up-front
“You gave us another point on the ti reality “Each step gets us closer to finding out what happened to her”
“Will you” Sina took a deep breath, her breasts threatening to overflow the low-cut top she wore beneath her deep pink puffer jacket “Will you tell us what you discover?”
“I promise”
“We don’t have a lot”—Carys stuck her jaw out, shoulders held tight—“but ant to ot no faot swept away in a flood when she was a kid”
Ashwini felt no surprise that Felicity’s ry for love and a stable life that she’d been willing to erase herself to achieve it “The man whose son discovered the body also wants to help,” she told the wouy Maybe you can ith hianize Felicity’s funeral once her ashes are released”
Five minutes later, the women left with Tony Rocco’s contact nuht the subway to meet him at Blood-for-Less As they pulled out, she asked what she hadn’t inside “How can a vampire be forced to work the streets? Is it part of her Contract?” Never before had she realized that s are expressly prohibited under the Contract, by order of Cadres ongoing, including the selling of the body for profit The punishment isn’t worth the risk Of course, that doesn’t mean there aren’t myriad other ways the Contracted can be used and abused”
Ashwini thought of what she’d seen in Nazarach’s court, of the toel, their faces white and owns “Do you wonder sometimes, about Simone and Monique?”
“Non They both lea to parallel park in a minuscule space “She’s around a hundred and fifty”