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“You want me to come in?” Lefty asked

“I think it’d be best Then you can get informed and break the news to Pres”

“You think she knows Gia is here?”

“I highly doubt she’s the kind of woman who leaves any loose ends, and there’s no reason

for her to pick New Mexico as her export place of choice”

“Yeah, I was thinking the salanced over at the small body buried beneath the covers beside him She’d passed out almost the moment her head hit the pillow “I’m on my way in”

“Alright, I’et more coffee” He disconnected

Kid probably never went to sleep Clue got like that when he was looking for so

Lefty squinted at the illuminated screen Seven-thirty He forced himself out of bed and headed for the shower Gia had tossed and turned all night,in her sleep He did his best not to disturb her, but it’d been iht her way through her own personal hell He spent theher she wasn’t there any her up from the worst of it She’d probably never reaze, she’d been out of it

The hot waterhis eyes burn

He leaned his head under the spray,at their duality He knehat it was to flee for your life from the only home you’d ever known The memory of smoke, bits of stone and fleshy bits he never examined too closely ca, taste the ash that coated his tongue and obscured his vision The sounds of screams and panic sounded in his ears He’d barely escaped the country with his life

Thank God for Dueling Devils The rawest shit he’d carried out for them was far better than the bleak life he would’ve faced without the his shower, he dressed quickly and sank down on the edge of the bed “G…Gia” He kept a reasonable distance, afraid to startle her

“Mhmm” Her lids fluttered open In the moments between sleep and wakefulness, she

seeone curly and frizzed slightly around her slender face and a sleepy smile curled her lips up

There was an openness in her expression he rarely saw He bit back a moan and pushed