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"Duff, I appreciate the offer, but --"

"I "

I followed his gesture toward Mrs Allen’s apart with Mrs Allen?"

A shy s"

I put a hand on his frigid shoulder "That’s not a dog, Duff That’s a demon named PP I’m about ninety percent certain he’s possessed"

Duff chuckled "At least he doesn’t have any teeth"

"Just be careful I think he has one fang left and he kno to use it"

After another quick glance toward the dragon’s lair, Duff lifted a hand "S-see you later, then"

"Sounds like a plan," I said with a wink "Just re"

The sious and charave me a shy wave, then disappeared

I started inside ht that decision If anyone would knohat Garrett went through, what he had to endure in the fiery pits, Reyes would He’d grown up in hell, after all, and then suffered a whole new version of the word here on Earth at the hands of Earl Walker, who had ended up with Reyes through nefarious , abused him mercilessly, then framed Reyes for his murder and had him sent to prison despite the fact that Earl Walker was alive and kicking

Well, not kicking anymore, thanks to an expertly placed blade that Reyes hi, but alive anyway

I walked to his apartment and knocked The fact that my hand shook a bit surprised me It wasn’t like I’d never been in his company Lots And in various states of undress But I’d never been to his humble abode, to his lair He’d never had the hoe, and the realization that the h that threshold ould be on his turf gave ain He had saved ht Not from Tidwell but from Cookie That woive me a partial view of him, and the butterflies swarht we could talk," I said, keeping ht he was going to brush me off, tellBut he turned and busied himself while I tried to peek over his shoulders into his apartrin crinkled one corner of his mouth as he secured another sticky note on the door before shutting it in my face