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up his empty cup and let out a low whistle of the staff home with pay, after it had become apparent I between his teeth. A moment later, Sophia came through wouldn’t need them to man the Pork Pit.
the double doors that led to the back of the restaurant.
“What about owen Grayson?” Finn asked between The dwarf clenched a battered silver coffeepot in her sips of steaming coffee. “How are you going to cash in stubby fingers. The one she always kept warm for Finn. that favor?”
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I’d mentioned it to Finn last night when I’d called to tell golden opportunity I have? Asked him to help me make him about the attempted robbery at the Pork Pit. He’d the charges stick?”
been more excited about owen Grayson owing me a Finn snorted. “Then you’d be wasting your favor, and favar than the fact Sophia and I had foiled the would-be you know it. Even if you got owen Grayson to back you robbers.
up, Jake McAllister still would never see the inside of a
“I’m not,” I said. “ I would have done the exact same jail cell. Because Jonah works for Mab Monroe. Even thing to Jake McAllister and his friend if a couple of somebody like Grayson would think twice about crossing homeless guys had been eating here instead of Eva GrayMab, especially since he has his sister to think about. I son. Saving her from getting dead doesn’t change anyimagine owen would like to be around to help her finish thing for me.”
growing up and not die a fiery, torture-filled death at the Finn shook his head. “Gin, Gin, Gin. You really need hands of Mab or one of her giant flunkies.”
to learn to take advantage of these golden opportunities
“I know. But it’s still a nice thought. The idea of Jake when they present themselves to you.”
McAllister being somebody’s prison yard bitch gives me
“And what golden opportunity would that be?”
the warm fuzzies.”
He gave me a calculating look. “I’ve had dealings with Finn snorted. “You are deeply disturbed.”
owen Grayson before. He’s deeply devoted to his sister. I grinned. “And that’s why you love me.”
Their parents died young, and he raised her himself. A Finn snorted again, then batted his eyes at Sophia to real family guy that way. I imagine you could ask him for get another refill on his chicory coffee. After the dwarf the moon right now, and he’d find a way to deliver it.”
obliged him, Finn stuck his nose in the financial sec“Good thing I don’t want the moon then.”
tion of the Ashland Trumpet . I leaned my elbows on the
“But—” Finn started.
counter, stared at the newspaper photo of the Pork Pit,
“Forget it,” I said. “I’m not asking owen Grayson for and brooded about my unwanted publicity. Maybe the anything. All I want to do is cook Fletcher’s barbecue reporter could have a small accident. Something painful, sauce, run the restaurant, keep my head down, and make but not immediately lethal—sure Jake McAllister gets what’s coming to him.”
A shadow fell over me, blocking my light. “Ahem.” A
“Even with your testimony, the girls’ testimony, it’ll small, polite sound.
never go to trial,” Finn pointed out. “Jonah McAllister I looked up. My lone customer of the day, the girl, will make sure his boy won’t spend a day in jail, no matter stood in front of me. My eyes immediately flicked to the what he has to do to accomplish that feat.”
dishes on her table, the way they always did. I liked know“And what if I called in that favor owen Grayson ing my customers enjoyed their meals, and there was no owes me?” I asked. “You know, take advantage of this better proof of that than an empty plate.
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But food still covered the
the double doors that led to the back of the restaurant.
“What about owen Grayson?” Finn asked between The dwarf clenched a battered silver coffeepot in her sips of steaming coffee. “How are you going to cash in stubby fingers. The one she always kept warm for Finn. that favor?”
Fletcher too, before he’d died. once again, Sophia wore Grayson’s visit hadn’t made the newspaper article, but Estep_Web of Lies_1P EP.indd 52-53
12/17/09 9:32 PM
54 JENNIFER ESTEP
Web of Lies 55
I’d mentioned it to Finn last night when I’d called to tell golden opportunity I have? Asked him to help me make him about the attempted robbery at the Pork Pit. He’d the charges stick?”
been more excited about owen Grayson owing me a Finn snorted. “Then you’d be wasting your favor, and favar than the fact Sophia and I had foiled the would-be you know it. Even if you got owen Grayson to back you robbers.
up, Jake McAllister still would never see the inside of a
“I’m not,” I said. “ I would have done the exact same jail cell. Because Jonah works for Mab Monroe. Even thing to Jake McAllister and his friend if a couple of somebody like Grayson would think twice about crossing homeless guys had been eating here instead of Eva GrayMab, especially since he has his sister to think about. I son. Saving her from getting dead doesn’t change anyimagine owen would like to be around to help her finish thing for me.”
growing up and not die a fiery, torture-filled death at the Finn shook his head. “Gin, Gin, Gin. You really need hands of Mab or one of her giant flunkies.”
to learn to take advantage of these golden opportunities
“I know. But it’s still a nice thought. The idea of Jake when they present themselves to you.”
McAllister being somebody’s prison yard bitch gives me
“And what golden opportunity would that be?”
the warm fuzzies.”
He gave me a calculating look. “I’ve had dealings with Finn snorted. “You are deeply disturbed.”
owen Grayson before. He’s deeply devoted to his sister. I grinned. “And that’s why you love me.”
Their parents died young, and he raised her himself. A Finn snorted again, then batted his eyes at Sophia to real family guy that way. I imagine you could ask him for get another refill on his chicory coffee. After the dwarf the moon right now, and he’d find a way to deliver it.”
obliged him, Finn stuck his nose in the financial sec“Good thing I don’t want the moon then.”
tion of the Ashland Trumpet . I leaned my elbows on the
“But—” Finn started.
counter, stared at the newspaper photo of the Pork Pit,
“Forget it,” I said. “I’m not asking owen Grayson for and brooded about my unwanted publicity. Maybe the anything. All I want to do is cook Fletcher’s barbecue reporter could have a small accident. Something painful, sauce, run the restaurant, keep my head down, and make but not immediately lethal—sure Jake McAllister gets what’s coming to him.”
A shadow fell over me, blocking my light. “Ahem.” A
“Even with your testimony, the girls’ testimony, it’ll small, polite sound.
never go to trial,” Finn pointed out. “Jonah McAllister I looked up. My lone customer of the day, the girl, will make sure his boy won’t spend a day in jail, no matter stood in front of me. My eyes immediately flicked to the what he has to do to accomplish that feat.”
dishes on her table, the way they always did. I liked know“And what if I called in that favor owen Grayson ing my customers enjoyed their meals, and there was no owes me?” I asked. “You know, take advantage of this better proof of that than an empty plate.
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But food still covered the
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