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Instead of a revenant I could kill, Sylvia spotted un butt, that angry-cop look lurking in her eyes She said "Cops are dead in there, and you were taking pictures So you could get paid"

She was right What could I say? It was a stupid waste of tiic "You take crime-scene pictures So do I And, like you, I study them later to see what I et paid because of those pictures"

"Don’t compare us," she snarled

And I realized what she really wanted I s teeth, and reared back in the bucket seat, half in and half out of the vehicle, crossing ers acrosssnark in both expression and body language Frohtened, I’d say I’d succeeded

"Why not? You’d stay on the job if the county said you had to serve for free?" I asked

"It isn’t the sa"

"No? If our country was attacked and our marines were cut off fro, no oaded "Pay stops, I bet you’d stop doing the job too"

"You don’t knoell enough to insult me"

"Back atcha, Syl"

It took a , and when they did, her hed and sat down on the curb, alured it was really just exhaustion "Guess I deserved that"

"You wanted a fight I thought about giving it to you I came close"

"Eli says you’d win" She didn’t sound happy about it

"I’d wipe the floor with you," I said happily

Sylvia Turpin snorted "I can’t decide if I like you or not"

"Two alphas in the sa as you stay away frohing, and Sylvia rolled her eyes "Okay That sounded like a high school girl laying claim to the cute boy in class I’m an idiot But--" She ca hatever she wanted to communicate

"But you never met anyone like hiuess"

"Friends and faht about that a bit, her eyes on the parking lot at her feet "Okay I can live with that" She stood and held out her hand, which trehtly We shook She didn’t release my hand, but held me in place and searched my face After what felt like way too many seconds, she nodded and stepped back "Okay Later, Jane Yellowrock"

"Later, Sylvia Turpin"