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Everything seemed to slow around me

The waitress was hiding under a table, head down between her legs Ro hiht desperately to save the cop’s life Talia and coh it

Then uniformed cops surrounded us, and I snapped back into reality One of theround, hands behind their heads Daht to support

That’s probably why they Tased me

Fucking aweso awesome day

• • •

“Good news, at least for you,” the lawyer said Dobie Coales had been one of the Reapers’ attorneys for nearly ten years now, but we’d been friends since grade school He looked like a big, duood ol’ boy, which had served us wellbrilliant Couldn’t is considered

I’d spent a charood fun Noas Sunday afternoon, and Coales sat facinga file folder of papers I sincerely hoped included so my ass

Coales was good

Very good If there was a way out of this one, he’d find it for otten all the inforive a shit anyht was Tinker

Specifically, what the ru her about yesterday’s incident

This wasn’t exactly the way I’d wanted to introduce her to club life

“I take it that uy Marsh stabbed is alive?” I asked That’d been ot roped in as an accessory, not even the club would be able to save my ass

“He’ll survive,” Coales said Thank fuck for that “Not sure howabout lost limbs or brain injuries”

“He wasn’t lookin’ so good”

Coales shrugged “Guess he had a rough night, but he’s stable They don’t seeer at this point That’s the important part”

“How about Painter?” I asked Coales’s face went carefully blank “Ah fuck He’s going back to prison, isn’t he?”

“Probably,” the lawyer adht it Things went south with the probation department back home while you were in Hallies Falls His old probation officer is gone Facing corruption charges”

Dobie said the words blandly, as if he hadn’t been the one paying those bribes Heh

“Shitty to be hiot any worries there?”

Like, is he gonna testify against your ass for arranging the whole thing?