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Rene focused on me. “Being subtle is very important in this case.” “We can do subtle,” I assured her. “It’s our middle name,” Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn’t look convinced.
I tapped the paper with my pen. “Rene, you want us to find you-don’t-know-who and to retrieve his you-don’t-know-what for you-won’t-tell-me-whom?”
When unsure of the stranger’s intentions, the best policy is to open a meaningful dialogue. “Hey, dickhead! Who taught you to shoot, Louis Braille? That arrow missed me by a mile.”
I was the biological by-product of a megalomaniac and a woman who magically brainwashed others into doing her will, and I was raised by a man who reveled in the knowledge that my biological father would one day kill me.
“Now, don’t you blaspheme. That’s not nice.
“I don’t know much, but I’m learning fast.” I rose. “And I’m here because I killed twenty-two shapeshifters in two weeks. I’ve earned my place. How many challenges did you have, Jennifer? Oh, that’s right. None.
Leslie screeched and roared, “Die alrrready!” I cleaved at her right arm, severing the tendon. Unless I won, the kids died. I would kill this bitch. I’d tear her limb from limb if I had to.
Ascanio squeezed his eyes shut. “Julie was already messed up. I picked her up and I ran.” His legs were broken and he’d carried Julie anyway. Whatever he did from now on, I would never forget this.
Andrea raised her hand. “This is the hand that slapped Aunt B.” “Maybe you should have it gold-plated.” “Here, you can touch it, since you’re my best friend.”
An attack on my family will not go unpunished.”
Evdokia slapped the table. “I’ve told you to mind your own business, old goat! This has nothing to do with you. Go kill something and revel in its blood.”
I stared at him. “The mass transit is gone. No planes, no reliable roads. The world is big again, Kate. He will never find us.” “What about the Pack?” His upper lip trembled, betraying the edge of his teeth. “Fuck the Pack. I gave them fifteen years of my life. I fought for them, bled for them, and the moment my back was turned, they attacked my wife. I owe them nothing.”
