Why do you care? Because we have to work together. You are not doing this, he said. Did I? She nodded. The straight black hair, the ever-so-slight uptilt to the edge of his eyes made me bet he'd come from somewhere much farther east.
Not badly, but enough to let me know that any alley that I could touch both sides of was too damn narrow for comfort. He grabbed for me, and I tried to be out of reach, but in the end, I had only a shadow of his speed, not the real thing. I did not believe them. Did you, girlie, see anything? I raised my badge so he could see it, and stepped around Douglas so I was facing what had to be his boss.
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