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Bad Karma and the Family Plan #97 (20.6) by Julie Lynn Hayes
“I’m not going to dignify your stupidity with an answer,” Ethan said in a voice filled with disdain. “You’re just a shit-disturber, Chip, and you know it. You think you’re someone special because you killed some poor innocent people and managed to make it into the news. You made headlines all across the country and you even got your picture on national TV. You made people frightened of you and the idea of what you might do to them. So they dubbed you the Florida Mangler. You think that’s something to be proud of?” Ethan snorted. “You know that there are serial killers out there a lot smarter than you are. How do I know that? Because they’re still out there and you’re here.” He waved his arms to encompass the small room in which we sat.
“Not for long, dickhead,” Chip replied, but I got the feeling his bravado sounded a little forced.
“You tell yourself that,
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“Jesus Fucking Christ. Pick a problem to have a hissy fit about and stick with it will you?” He was getting whiplash trying to figure out who was snarling at him and why. Getting met with a golem, told to make an appointment, and having to trudge up all those stairs to meet in their exalted tower room just so they could be all on high was pissing Beckett off.
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