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Bria waved back, telling him that she'd be there in a ot to her feet

"I made quite thewith the aftermath of this for weeks "

She shrugged "What are sisters for? Besides, you just helped me close two other homicides - Katarina and Antonio Plus, the faet soht's work for the Spider "

"You know, I think that's the first time you've ever said my assassin name in a happy tone," I said

Bria looked at me, her face soht you saved Elliot Slater fro me to death in my own house?"

"Sos in the world than me "

She nodded "I thinkone of those things last night There are worse things than assassins in the world, Gin A hell of a lot worse things Souised as love "

She leaned down and huggedA one, off to deal with the rest of the fallout

The attempted massacre of Ashland's underworld leaders dominated the news for the next few days Story after story filled the newspapers and airwaves about Salina Dubois and her twisted plan to get revenge for her father's murder

When those stories beca tales for the local h he'd been working with Salina, had helped her arrange her deadly dinner, he still painted hiave an interview to anyone who ca until you couldn't turn on the TV or open the newspaper without seeing his s bastard He orse than a cockroach, always finding a way to survive nocrushed under

But slowly, life got back to normal - except for the fact that I didn't hear a word from Owen

He didn't call or come by to see me, and I didn't try to contact him I knew he needed soive it to him, no matter how much I just wanted to hold him in my arms and pretend like the last few days had never happened Like I'd never heard of Salina Dubois or discovered just how much she'd meant to my lover

Eva called me every day, but she didn't haveto deal with Salina's death and her part in it just like I was

Finally, a week after I killed Salina, Owen dropped by the Pork Pit My lover stepped into the restaurant,the bell over the front door chi time, and the restaurant was deserted except for me and Sophia The dwarf jerked her thumb over her shoulder at him

"Privacy," she rasped