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"I’ll get her," Thoot to her feet She was sore, her scalp hurt, and she felt better than she’d ever felt in her life "Jalad to see you You, too, Corey Amabel said the three of you were in that shed behind Doc Spiver’s cottage"

"Yeah," Quinlan said, "but we’re special agents We got out Well, actually, it’s Corey who’s the hero You know, Sally, I noticed a gray hair Let Corey untie your hands"

When she had feeling back in her wrists, she went and stood over the man who’d been her father for so , the ot down on her knees She smiled "Now it’s my chance to tell you what I think of you You’re pathetic You’re nothing You’ll never have a hold over anybody again for as long as you live I hate you More than that, I despise you" She drew back her fist and slammed it into his nose

"God, I’ve wanted to do that for such a long tie His nose began to bleed He quieted only when he felt the gun press still harder against his te else? Noelle is ecstatic that you’re gone She hates you as much as I do She’s free of you I’"

She stared down at hie in his eyes "Fucking bastard" She rose and kicked him in the ribs

"Shut up, you crazy bitch Hey, you’re a cop Don’t let her beat me"

"I’ll let her shoot you in the balls if she wants to," Quinlan said "Sally? Would you like to shoot him?"

"No, not now Well, just not this exact minute You knohat, oldout again very soon She’ll have any man she wants"

"She won’t dare She’d know I’d kill her if she even looked at anotherto kill anybody," Sally said, eyesto jail for the rest of your miserable life" She patted his face "You’re an oldand wrinkle in prison"

"I won’t go to prison God, I’et you I played with you for six led you"

"Just try it, you old bastard" She smiled down at hiroin