I was just happy that I almost never wore base makeup. A girl can't be coffin-bait for the Master of the City and be a good girl. If you can turn one small piece of his power against him, then why not all of it? I started to ask, what did he mean, then he showed me. I took my arm out of his grip and looked at Nathaniel.
Then, when the clean clothes got put away, his T-shirts got mixed in with mine, and since they're the same size, we left it that way. But he turned and left, vanishing into the dimness of the living room beyond. The implication had been that some of the clients feared that other clients would bribe me. For one glorious second, we believed.
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