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“Good Hey, honey, I gotta apologize I was pretty stehen you guys showed up at my place yesterday”

Pro shrugged “It could happen to anyone…”

“Yeah, well after you left, I realized you’re Max’s kid I certainly wouldn’t have talked about your old man the way I did if I had known,” she said and looked at herself in the mirror as she completed another curl

She grabbed a s, which she held and then slowly released in a thin cloud of vapor “Not that I said anything that wasn’t true But Max actually was always pretty nice to h not interested in a physical relationship” The older woe siven me a tumble, I coulda been your stepmother!”

“No, thank you,” Pro blurted “I have had quite enough stepmothers, if you don’t mind”

“Oh yeah, Max did like the ladies I once told hi ‘em and not marry each one Oh, but I shouldn’t talk like that in front of you I never met your ma Is she a nice lady?”

Pro stared at the floor “To be honest, she’s the best”

“That’s good, that you like her and all,” she said and took another drag as the device lit up with a blue light and she expelled anotherthat sarette “You gotta excuse me I like

to vape before a show It’s actually good for ives me a kick of nicotine”

“Well, I should get back to Mister Shaut”

“Wait, wait I heard that you and your partner found Mike Mystique after you left ht?”

“That’s correct We believe he was killed by the same man as Al Floss and Louie Tanner”

“Oh? Well, then that couldn’t be your father”

“Why not?”

“‘Cause he was hiding in one,” she said simply