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“I wouldn’t worry, Aisha,” Harriet said as we walked down Kathy’s front steps.
Hattie, Terrance, and the rest of the Shadow Walkers were waiting in the snow.
“Well?” Hattie asked.
“It’s done,” I said.
“Hot damn,” Terrance said. “I didn’t think you’d be able to do it, girl, but look at you—you done gone and did it. Nice job. Too bad you had to rip that bastard’s throat out.”
Hattie pulled her coat closer and shivered in the wind.
“Baby, we better be getting home,” she said.
Terrance nodded.
“Nice to meet y’all,” Terrance said. “That adventure we had tonight—ha ha, that’s going down in the history books. At least in my mind.”
“I won’t forget it, that’s for sure,” I said.
Definitely.
I wasn’t going to forget this night for a long time.
Terrance fist-bumped Darius.
“Nice job t
