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"Not where, only if Alive or dead That’s what I know"

Well, crap, this was not helping Maybe if I explained sos about this particular Earl Walker, we could narrow it down "Rocket, let hly confused

"Because I need to talk to you, and I don’t want to be eaten by a freaking Rottweiler"

A huge grin spread across his face "Like that one?"

He pointed over my head as a massive dollop of saliva dripped ontoacross my cheek, and I tried not to wetit difficult to lie still, but lie still I did Running onlya bomb, I eased a hand into my jacket pocket and took out a rawhide strip in the shape of a bone I had barely pulled e set of jaws clamped down on it and rolled over on top ofseveral ribs in the process

I grunted and looked to nawing, thankfully on the bone He nudgedme to try to take it And my heart was lost

"Aren’t you a sweetheart?" I asked, and he--correction, she--rolled onto her stoh to cause a hurricane in China I rubbed her stoed my hands with her nose, and I looked at her collar "Artemis? Your name is Artemis?"

Figuring it would be good practice for oddess? You look like a goddess What a pretty na baby talk and froze when a large set of boots stepped into s, a skull-shaped belt buckle, and a T-shirt framed within a leather vest that said KILL THEM ALL, LET GOD SORT THEM OUT I continued my journey up to a scruffy jaw, a pair of black wraparound sunglasses, and hair so dark, it didn’t reflect, but absorbed the sunlight

"You’re lucky your jugular is still intact," he said, the tenor of his voice deep and soothing despite its e "Artemis doesn’t like peopleposition with "

Twojust as scruffy as the first One was young and looked like a Greek prince The other looked

The first man turned to theed "She is sweet" After receiving a jolting punch to the shoulder, he rubbed it and said, "She is It’s not ry enough, but I found it difficult to pinpoint his exact e half her face"

Tony Soprano nodded in agree wholeheartedly

"She’s not even a good guard dog anymore What the fuck am I supposed to do with that?"

Artemis jumped on his chest, as if to show hiot a present" He rubbed her ears playfully and pretended he was going to eat it as he led her back to the ground and had her sit She tried to juave up and placed her full attention on the bone

"Me, huh?" the prince said "You old softy"

After another loud thud echoed against the building, one that had uy as apparently the leader of this herehere"

They glanced at one another and chuckled "Are you kidding?" Mafioso asked