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“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” Z moaned under her breath as she raised her hands. “We just got paid, and now we are gonna get robbed by these jackasses?”
“The issue with democracy is that people are stupid. They give in to their addictions, their desires, and their fear.
Well, I was alone except for the animal that raged within my soul.
“Eve should be here with you, not me. Why did you pick me? I’m kind of confused.”
“What do you mean by ‘do what we need to do?’ I feel like that’s Adam talk for ‘I’m going to start killing fuckers until someone gives me what I want,’ and here I thought we were going to be sly.”
“I wouldn’t need to tell her anything. She’d know what was in my mind and my heart,” Z answered, and it was probably the wisest words I had heard her say since I had known her.
Can’t bake a cake without breaking some eggs.” “You can’t make an omelet--” “I’d rather have cake than an omelet,”
“You must have at least two women,” the smiling man said. “More is better, but at least two.” “Why is that?” I asked. “If you have one, she thinks she owns you. They are ridiculous creatures. If you have two, they each begin to learn their place.”
“I have been.” Byron smiled and then pulled out a revolver from his coat. “This is for my sister,” he said. Then the gangster blew half of the smiling man’s brains all over the back wall of the club.
“Our whole plan has turned to shit, and we are getting shot at, just a usual day for the crew of Persephone. I’m a connoisseur of finely distilled tragedy.
“What would you have given to have me standing in the alleyway when the men took your sister?”
“Yeah. They have a good plan. They just didn’t count on us,” I said
“Uhhh. Why are you happy? Most women would be--” “I am not most women. I am all women, and you are all men.” She pulled away from me a bit, and I stared into her red eyes.
“Oi! I heard you have a problem with some bombs? Maybe we can be of assistance?”
“Mate, there’s something different about you. No, don’t tell me. I wanna figure it out. Is it the suit? Did you get a new suit?”
Are you a natural blonde? Or do you just dye your hair that color to lower everyone else’s expectations?”
