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What would it have been like to have been raised in a pretty, settled co dragged fro street made her jittery, moody?

Maybe there were fathers here who snuck into their little girls’ bedrooms, too But it was hard to believe it The fathers here couldn’t sers that pushed themselves into innocent flesh

Eve caught herself rocking in the seat and choked back a sob

She wouldn’t do it She wouldn’t re over her in the dark, or the taste of that hand cla over her mouth to smother her screams

She wouldn’t do it It had all happened to soirl whose name she couldn’t even remember If she tried to, if she let herself reain and lose Eve

She laid her head back on the seat and concentrated on cal in self-pity, she would have seen the wo theat the side of the modified rancher across the street before the first shard fell

As it was, Eve scowled, asked herself why she’d had to pull over at just this spot And did she really want the hassle of dealing with intra-jurisdiction paperwork?

Then she thought about the nice faone

With a long-suffering sigh, she got out of the car

The woman was half in and half out of the hen Eve reached her The security shield had been deactivated by a cheap jammer, available at any electronic outlet With a shake of her head for the naïveté of suburbanites, Eve tapped the thief sh the opening

“Forget your code, ma’am?”

Her ansas a hard donkey-style kick to the left shoulder Eve considered herself lucky it hadsome early tulips The perp popped out of thelike a cork and bolted across the lawn

If her shoulder hadn’t been aching, Evetackle that sent the into a bed of sunny-faced pansies

“Get your fucking hands off me, or I’ll kill you”

Eve thought briefly that it was a possibility The woood twenty pounds To ensure it didn’t happen, she ja for her badge