A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper 1) - Page 134

Minty helped him get his tweed jacket on over the shoulder holster.

"You know, you might be heavily armed, but you still look like an English professor - don't you have some clothes more appropriate for fighting?"

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"James Bond always wears a tux," Charlie said.

"Yeah, I understand the line between reality and fiction seems a little blurred here lately - "

"I'm kidding," Charlie said. "There are some motocross leathers and pads in the shop that will fit me if I can find them. "

"Good. " Minty patted Charlie's shoulders, like he was trying to make them bigger. "You see that bitch with the poison claws, you light her up for me, okay?"

"I'll buss a cap in da hoe's ass," Charlie said.

"Don't do that. "

"Sorry. "

The hardest part came a few minutes later.

"Honey, Daddy has to go do something. "

"Are you going to get Mommy?"

Charlie was crouched in front of his daughter, and he nearly rolled over backward at the question. She hadn't mentioned her mommy a dozen times in the last two years.

"Why would you say that, honey?"

"I don't know. I was thinking about her. "

"Well, you know that she loved you very much. "

"Yeah. "

"And you know that no matter what, I love you very much. "

"Yeah, you said that yesterday. "

"And I meant it yesterday. But this time, I really do have to go. I have to fight some bad guys, and I might not win. "

Sophie's lower lip pushed out like a big wet shelf.

Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, Charlie chanted in his head. I can't handle it if you cry.

"Don't cry, honey. Everything will be okay. "

"Nooooooooooo," Sophie wailed. "I want to go with you. I want to go with you. Don't go, Daddy, I want to go with you. "

Charlie held her and looked across the room to his sister, pleading. She came and took Sophie from his arms. "Noooooo. I want to go with you. "

"You can't go with me, honey. " And Charlie ducked out of the apartment before his heart broke again.

Audrey was waiting in the hall with fifty-three squirrel people. "I'm driving you to the entrance," she said. "Don't argue. "

"No," Charlie said. "I'm not losing you after just finding you. You stay here. "

"You creep! What gives you the right to be that way. I just found you, too. "

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