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"Thanks And, hey, it’s really great, you know The way you all get along"

"We all?" Blake asked

"You, Martin DuPre and Grable Haines"

Blake shrugged uncoht not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he wasn’t stupid

"Yeah, we get along all right"

Jackson laughed "That didn’t sound convincing"

"We all really love the senator Grable, he’s a cool guy, but he’s had his probleamble, and he’s definitely a ladies’ rin Maybe I am a little jealous, but, hey, he’s fine We have to kill tiether sometimes, and it’s cool"

"What about Martin DuPre?" Jackson asked hi politician himself, you know?" Blake said

"You don’t like him"

"I never said that"

"But you don’t"

"I takehe can snap his fingers at me I tell hiuess he’s a little too Goody Two-shoes He’s with the senator, or he’s at home on some online course about how to speak with proper diction, how to market, hoin the love of a crowd He’s a bit much for me, that’s all"

"Different personalities," Jackson sy into all our pasts, right? Because Senator Holloway is so torn up about Regina If you haven’t found it yet, you will, so I’ll just give you the scoop on hter I killed a guy in a fight It really wasn’t ht happen Knocked him flat, and he came at me with a knife, and I didn’t let him kill me So, you can look intomore I paid for my sins, that’s for sure But I’m not worried about you or anybody else, because I found lad to hear it How?"

"I found God I’ain Christian, sir, and I let anyone know it"

"Well, Blake, it’s a very good thing for aas how you have found your own inner peace, how do you feel about the Church of Christ Arisen?"

Blake stared at hi to demons, that’s all I can tell you Christ loves every man, and he comes to every man in a different way, and he doesn’t hate those who are confused or haven’t found their way And Christ does not say that a man should sleep with children, and he sure doesn’t say that a man should do injury to any other Those people are just wacko, and they hate everyone My God teaches love--theirs teaches soin to understand"

"You never had any trouble with Regina or David Holloway over religion, I take it?" Jackson asked hiue! She was a good Rouidance from mediums and tarot card readers She told ood ti now and then David Holloway is a moderate himself, and he’d always just shake his head The senator, he always said that debate was good for aas a man remembered that ere in the US of A, where everyas those beliefs did no harm to others"

"And you don’t believe that the Church of Christ Arisen means no harht on anything yet, but if you call brainwashing children harht want to look into them," Blake said He cut himself off abruptly

"Was there any trouble between theht not know about?" Jackson asked hi I know about"

"And the Aryans?"

"Assholes," Blake said gravely "And I rinned, but he didn’t leave "There is so me," he said "Come on--no man can lead a perfect life"

"I think the senator tried," Blake said "I think he tried I really can’t say anything else except that I heard hi to DuPre one day, and it sounded…financial"

"DuPre needed money?" Jackson asked

"I don’t think it was for DuPre," Blake said

"Are you talking black," Blake said firue notion, and could be entirely wrong You got questions--ask the senator"

He indicated the door beyond the vestibule

"Please, sir, go right on in I don’t think that I’ll warn Lisa I think you should meet Miss Drummond all on your own," Blake said

Jackson arched a brow

But Blake wasn’t going to tell hi on between Senator Holloway and his secretary, Blake was going to flatly give hiht throw out a few hints, but…