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As Carrow repeated herself, Mari obediently mumbled in unison, "Darwin says people like you need to die"

"Yep, that's what I said And after everything that's happened to you, I', she was showered, dressed in beachy new clothes and sandals fro an unliht home "Well, let this serve as my call-in to the House to avert disaster Only a day late I hope you told everyone I've never been on tiot a call from some dude named Hild And then a deo"

Chapter 20

"Nuh-uh!"

"Yeah, uh-huh I wasn't here, but I heard that wherever he turned his green-eyed gaze, witches dropped trou and proffered panties"

"Carrow, that's how ru tone "Did he say anything about the rest of his group?"

"Said everybody on his end cahed with relief, Carrow added, "He left a number for you You know I could tell him you're okay - over dinner and drinks"

She couldn't help but grin Rydstrom would either love Mari or curse her for this, but she said, "Yeah, you call hi as of this , bad - with naht" Bastard had called her Mariah Was that all Mari was to him? A substitute? A second choice? B teaht

Bowen MacRieve utterly ruined me for other men

She almost wished she didn't no that sex like that existed - or that what she'd thought in the past was great pleasure had been a mere toe touch in a vast ocean She irritably rapped on the bar with her knuckles and signaled the bartender for another round

"I don't suppose you found a big plane?" Carrow asked "Or that you ed to score some Xanax?"

"No, and no," Mari was so sick of B team, she was actually about to fly out on a baby plane "But I'ht out at all Besides, I' hiskey I'll land around seven, so coet me - if you still have your driver's license - and peel my drunk ass from the plane"

"Will do But, Mari, I have to say that youclearly on the issue of the olf, because, well, you have issues"

"What's that supposed to et really chapped over stuff like this Think about it, the very last ti around with aor whatever you people do - it ith a feht, when he olfy andlaid for the first tihty years, he basically forgot the ket in your naht want to cut him some slack Or, I could cast a spell to make him fall in love with dryer lint You decide But if the sex was truly - "

"Cataclysmic?"

"Yeah, you already conveyed that like thirty ti hed "I ht if he wanted me"

"I do want you, lass"