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  She looked away from her spell and eyed her sister. Echo looked a little mussed but none the worse for wear. “Anyone left here?”

  “Just Timmy,” Echo grunted as she grabbed the bag of their clothes from behind the truck’s seat. “Poor boy. My spell got him hard in the gut when he tried to dodge. He’ll have sore ribs if Blind Bobby doesn’t kill him for losing us and the booze.”

  “Did Lindsey get out?” Ariadne asked as she shimmied out of her evening gown. Echo tossed Ariadne a wool skirt and blouse, and they stripped down in the auto garage, changing from party clothes to one step away from an initiate for a nunnery.

  “He got out when I did, but he was bright enough not to follow me here. We need to consider a change of employment. If things had gone differently, Circe would be raising Medea and Cassiopeia. I love Circe, but…”

  Ariadne winced. It was true. If there had been more coppers or if the fellows were a little more trigger happy, they’d have been in trouble. With enough guns blazing, even witches wouldn’t have survived.

  Ariadne told Echo, “Aunt Beatrix said she was interested in taking over. She has more people. That…that…flimflam that just happened to us wouldn’t have happened to her. Not with her sons. Jasper and Gerard with those broad shoulders and thick jaws? Let alone their magic? They won’t get the same garbage we’re getting.”

  “We’ll still get our cut too,” Echo reminded Ariadne with a telling glance. “Beatrix promised it when she wanted to take on the work. You engineered the spells for aging the booze like we do, and Beatrix knows it. We have to be careful, Ariadne—at least until Medea and Cassiopeia are older. They’re too little to lose you too.”

  It wasn’t Echo’s words that convinced Ariadne. It was the memory of the gun being swung her sister’s way. If Echo hadn’t been prepared for someone to turn their gun on her, if her magic hadn’t been inclined towards the dead, if they’d been firing guns haphazardly, if the sisters had been a little less lucky, Ariadne might have lost her sister. No amount of dough was worth that.

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