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“Afternoon work?”

“No proble from you”

He nodded and pushed through the door, walking down the street without a second look back I locked up behind his Not that Cooper had acted like a douche, but he had to be e as Sadie She was also a raging bitch There was only one reason ato do with personality or character

Cooper Roht be beautiful, but obviously he was shallow Suppose it was too much to hope for a man who could fix an air conditioner and have a soul at the same time

Pity

CHAPTER TWO

GAGE

“Gonna be a long night,” I told Reese “Picnic” Hayes through the phone I’d been checking in with my club’s president at least once a day, on the theory that if I didn’t call, he ainst the side of the diner where I’d parkedin for lunch I’d walked over to check out Tinker’s store afterward on a whim Now I had a job and a cover Make that a job, a cover, and balls bluer than a Sirlfriends, crawled all overall day and I suess that means we’ve hooked her No other reason I can see a woht now”

Picnic laughed “That was the goal, right?”

“Yeah,” I replied sourly “You owe et back, brother Gonna have to triple-wrapit in a snatch like that”

“What’s the problem?” he asked “I saw her picture—she’s hot, even if she is a bitch Since when do you care about their personalities?”

Frowning, I glared atoff the handlebars I’d stripped off anything thatabout this operation rong on soh to volunteer

Yes, I’d been sick of e of pace But I’d also wanted to leave the crazy bitch-draht into the queen bitch’s nest

“Getting laid is great,” I replied slowly “But this one is nasty Too young forNever heard so”

“Thought you liked the young ones,” Pic commented dryly

He was right, but a fewto Tinker had re with a more mature woman for once She’d been into a curves combined with hard work and a brain

I’d taken a fewout squirrel corpses

Impressive woman The tea shop portion of her business was obviously just a storefront, with the bulk of her operation centered on gourmet chocolates she made herself They were sold in shops all over Seattle, Taco

Talia, on the other hand, didn’t do any real work at all Not only that, the little tas skinny and skanky and had a mouth on her that made me flinch, which was sayin’ a lot

“Talia isn’t just young,” I said “The bitch never shuts up, and all she does is whine Everyone’s out to get her, nobody understands her, and her shit doesn’t stink She’d last ot banned perhthawk brothers have put up with her this long”