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about
him. It was the sister I wanted.” Drew sighed out a smile. “Good times.”
    “I didn’t
actually lie about the camel or the jockey,” Bobby pointed out. “Or the
jockey’s sister, who, by the way, was a man and not related to the jockey at
all .”
    “Are you sure?”
Drew said. “Because I had my hands…”
    Bobby
interrupted. Some things, a man didn’t need to know about his friends.
“Positive, and it’s still not a lie.”
    Hiro spread his
hands in a mild shrug. “You didn’t tell us about it beforehand, so close enough.”
    “Ok, all right.
I fudged a couple of times.” Bobby sat back in his chair and rubbed a hand
across his hair, ruffling it. “But I never lied about anything important and
you know it.”
    “True,” Hiro
said.
    Drew shrugged
one shoulder. “I always wondered why that hooker looked just like your sister
did twenty years ago.”
    Bobby shot him
an exasperated look and ground his teeth together. “Jerusha’s not a hooker, and
if you call her that one more time, I’m gonna…”
    “Boys,” Hiro
said, and waited until Drew and Bobby exchanged pointed glares before
continuing. “Let’s say this story is true. Why didn’t you tell us before?”
    Bobby barked out
a laugh. “Do you think you would’ve believed me before?”
    “If you’d needed
us to.” Hiro’s gaze was steady. “Are you immortal?”
    “No. Children
born to Daughters who’ve broken the curse are always mortal.”
    “Are you sure
you didn’t sniff a fungus or something?” Drew said.
    Bobby fixed a withering
glare on him.
    “Who exactly is
your mother sending us after?” Hiro folded his hands across his waist, his dark
eyes patient, steady. “Members of the Shadow Enemy?”
    Bobby shook his
head. “When I said traitors, I really meant traitors. Mom thinks some of the
Daughters have, for whatever reason, been manipulating information somehow,
either hiding it from the People or giving false data to us. The problem is,
these Daughters may be working alone or they may be working together, or some
combination, but they aren’t necessarily working with the Shadow Enemy.”
    “What about
India? What’s her role in all this?” Drew steepled his fingers together under
his chin. “And how do you know Indigo’s not in on it with her?”
    “For one, Indigo
and India have never gotten along,” Bobby said through gritted teeth. “And for
another, we know for a fact that India runs with a bad crowd. I can’t share the
details, but Dani wasn’t in the hospital a couple of weeks ago with
appendicitis.”
    “India did
something to her?” Drew’s eyebrows veed over the storm clouds brewing in his
eyes, and Bobby winced. Drew had a bit of a crush on Dani. Bobby dreaded having
to tell his partner about his adoptive sister’s new love interest.
    “No, not India,
but she was part of it.” Bobby sucked in a breath and blew it out slowly.
“Look, guys, I’m only telling you this much because India came after you. She’s
dangerous. So are these other women. Some of them make Margaret look like a
school girl out for a walk in the park.”
    “We can handle
ourselves,” Hiro said mildly.
    “Maybe. Either
way, you need to be on alert. The People we’re going after are highly-skilled
warriors, all of them, and they won’t hesitate to kill you and everyone around
you if they think you’re a threat.”
    “Eh, why are we
doing this job again?” Drew said. “Wouldn’t it be better if your people handled
it from their side?”
    “Mom
specifically asked for the Enforcer,” Bobby said flatly.
    “Well, damn.”
Drew tugged at his ear. “Hell’s come to Georgia and we’re all gonna die.”
    Hiro sliced an
impatient glare at Drew. “Bobby wouldn’t take any job with a high risk of
failure.”
    “True. I like my
hide where it is.” Bobby sat back in his chair, amused. “That’s why we’re going
high-tech. As skilled as these women are, most of them cling to the old ways.”
    “A good