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“It was a hard thing to do I don’t think I’d’ve had the guts for it”

“It has nothing to do with guts”

“Yeah, it does” Peabody stopped, waited for Eve to turn to face her “If you didn’t have feelings, it wouldn’t have been hard But you do Guts can be the sa as mean without compassion It was hard, but you did it anyway A better cop would have realized that quicker”

“I didn’t give youdown your throat You worked it out, caht with you So, are we square now?”

“Yeah, all four corners”

“Good, let’s get inside I’ my ass off”

CHAPTER TWENTY

They went by to see Trueheart first At Peabody’s insistence, they stopped off in the shopping ift

“It’ll take five minutes”

“We’ve chipped in on the flowers already” The forest of goods, the wide and winding trails that led to the the sales and specials caused Eve’s already abused stomach to execute a slow, anxious roll

She’d rather have gone hand-to-hand with a three-hundred-pound violent tendency than be sed up in a consumer sea

“That’s from everyone,” Peabody explained patiently “This’ll be from us”

Despite herself, Eve stopped at a display of dull green surgical scrubs brightly eo For ten bucks extra, you could have one splattered hat appeared to be arterial blood

“It’s a sick world Just sick”

“We’re not going for the souvenirs” Though she thought the oversized anal probes were kind of a hoot “When a guy’s in the hospital, he wants toys”