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"Two days later" For all the emotion he expressed he could have been an android Which meant it was probably more iuy, huh? Two days" I shrugged "I guess I shouldn’t be ashaood as you" Which was probably only because I had been too busy running for my life to stop and really think about it all Or maybe my moral compass was off I’d been too worried about my life to think of the one I had accidentally taken

His lips curved upward just a hair

"Was he really a bad guy?" I turned my face to watch him carefully

"Yes" His deep voice was firirls?"

"Most prostitutes don’t retire, Ava They live a life where they trade part of themselves for h stakes world and Song was brutal"

"How do you know for sure it was him?" I tried to brush some of my tear dampened hair out ofThey ended up dead not long after"

"And what, she cared about the turncoats?" I frowned "If it’s such a brutal world, you’d think she’d have chalked it up to what they deserved Not spend ht" His chin jerked decisively "Froh rollers followed the girls to Song’s business and never caone That’s bad for profits so she decided to make a spectacle and remove him from the scene He encroached on her territory and then spat in her face"

I thought it over "Why not just lure his girls away fro for a job she has the upper hand and can pay less She’d have to dangle a large carrot to get them to come to her otherwise"

"It’s a prostitute turf war" I shook rounded in some sort of reality" He stood up and offered et some breakfast?"

"I’d really like to brush my teeth" I let him pull me to my feet

"Extra toothbrushes in the medicine cabinet Then we eat" He closed the door behind him and I stared at my reflection I had hopped on the carousel of death and had no idea which way it was going to take ave ed the tag while Ava was sleeping Or we could take the old farnize the truck and it would be better to keep a low profile here Most of the people I ran with long ago were gone or locked up, but it paid to be safe

Avaher cry in ut Hoas I supposed to co her on the back would have been patronizing Any sort of comment I made would sound eotten her a rag and sat on the floor instead