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Gemma was a psychiatrist, which meant she could take care of everybody’s problems but her own, just one of a dozen ere alike But our looks was not one of theold eyes, she was the classic blond-haired, blue-eyed beauty that set men’s hearts aflutter I could set men’s hearts aflutter, too, but I owed s I could do with my mouth

"So, you already know I remember the day I was born?"

"Duh, you told me a thousand times ere little"

Wow, I didn’t re enshrouded in an undulating black robe that filled the entire delivery rooainst the walls, and how he hovered in a corner, stayed with h I never actually heard his voice? And hoas deathly afraid of hith and stealif she’d fallen asleep again, she said, "No, you didn’t ers of one hand on the steering wheel to the classic rock playing in the background, happy I could get back to my story "So, that happened, then on the third day, when the little girl’s father finally showed up to take her home, she really wanted to ask him, ‘Where the fuck you been, Dad?’ but she lacked the motor skills necessary to speak A year passed and the little girl was a happy caain, and her dad seeenuinely like her Except when she ate pureed peas, but that was his own fault Then he brought ho pretty et the whole step"

Reyes was probably the one and onlypart of ht with the 122nd Fighter Attack Squadron They’d been celebrating the promotion of one of their comrades I helped Damn wine coolers I learned a lot about evasive ht And overs

"Okay, I’ive you the Schoolhouse Rock version"

"Are you driving?"

"… No"

"Are you sure? I hear road noise"

"… Yes"

"Okay, I’ll have to settle for that version I have a nine o’clock"

"Got it," I said, glancing atis there, cloaked in black and such And he’s just a but scary And he called me Dutch"

"Wait a minute"

"You have a client in like five seconds Can you hold your questions until the end?"

"He called you Dutch? When you were born?"

Woas a little surprised Geht, when you stopped thatthat kid The boy we saved called you Dutch"

She was good When Ge her with a school project late one night on the seedier side of town She’d wanted to capture life on the streets for a video about the harsher side of Albuquerque We were huddled in the corner of an abandoned school, basically freezing our asses off, e noticed movement in theof a s a teenaged boy, and ht was to save hih thethe boy and ca for an opening along a fence that blocked our path to freedom e realized the boy had escaped as well He was doubled over on the frozen ground, coughing and trying to breathe past the pain

We stumbled back to him, and when he looked up at us, blood streaked down his face and dripped from his incredibleso far as to threaten us if we didn’t leave

We had no choice We left hione back the next day and found out from the landlady the faht and stiffed her for two months’ rent She also told me his name Reyes That was all I had--for years that one name sustained me When I finally found him over a decade later, I wasn’t completely surprised to find that Reyes had spent the last ten years in prison for killing that very ht we’d tried to save hiether," I said "It took me years to do that"