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Cookie’s scream slowly died down and ended with a little squeak as Reyes and I looked at the sleeping beauty on my floor
"He didn’t suan, but I held up a hand to stop hi to say He was the only one who could have But there are others on this plane we don’t know about For all we know, your father could be on this plane He could have allowed theate"
He stiffened "It would be just like him to send the Twelve after us He used them for his dirty work They were created for his dirty work And his entertainment"
"See? Osh didn’t do it I can feel his desire to help us just as easily as you can His desire for us to win He’s not exactly a fan of your father’s Why would you attack him like that?"
Still shirtless, Reyes lowered hiainst Sophie, and braced an arm on one knee I knelt beside Osh, touched his face He looked like an angel He looked like a child
"I don’t know," Reyes said "I’ desperate If we don’t find out who summoned them, who controls them, we may never win this"
"We have to," I said, matter-of-fact "For Beep, Reyes, we have to"
"I know" He nodded toward Osh "What is it about him that you trust so much?"
"I’m not really sure I feel like he’s… important That’s all"
"If you’d seen him in hell --"
"The same can be said about you, Rey’aziel," I re at the mass destruction he’d caused, "how the fk did you coest deed "Latin Works every tilish and Ancient Araes we know Not sure why Latin It just feels right You knohen I wake hirin I’d ever seen spread across Reyes’s lovely face "I’ree with her
Turns out, angry de I was sure I’d heard that so up in church or at a séance in irl naue with the devil since she was seven Because she’d been so young, I always assuue Probably coach pitch, but one never knows It could have been juniors She could have been an aficionado
After I soothed an extre that calling him OshKosh did not help his mood – he storly hot And a small part of him had been hurt by Reyes’s accusation Not the attack itself, though He seemed to thrive on violence, but I’d felt the sa in a backyard called Charley’s apartames until sorowled at each other "Or a testicle" I stepped between them when they caain"
Instead of challenging s?" a very nervous Cookie asked fro with the sound of World War III echoing out of ain, that no one had sicced 5-0 on us Gawd, I loved calling the cops 5-0 It’s the little things
Fortunately, A, but she saw Osh storh breakfast Me! Her favorite albeit only and not particularly blood-related aunt! To say the tension could have been cut with a knife would have been an understateular knife wouldn’t have scored it Maybe a machete A really sharp one Like Kill Bill–katana sharp
As worried as he was, Garrett left soon after He had a date with a skip and a cool five grand if he brought hie, his deliciously sexy shower, as I opted for another cup of devil’s blood and a quick check to see as on the agenda for the day According to my online scheduler, which I never actually used, I was scot-free I could whittle away the day if I wanted to Sadly, that was not the case Despite the raging state of s to see and people to do I was just about to head to my own shower, the less spectacular but just as useful Roed in
"Turn to Channel 7," she said, taking upme to wonder why she toldh Reyes Farrow had no comment," the neoman said into the camera, the same one who’d assaulted Reyes in the bar, "he did assureinto theabout?" I asked Cookie
"Robert She said that Reyes and his lawyers are looking into suing not only the city, but Robert as well, since he was the lead detective on Reyes’s case ten years ago"
"Reyes is going to sue Uncle Bob?" I asked, confounded