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question off your list.

Malachi:

It isn’t.

Jocelyn:

Then…oh.

Malachi:

She’s too young, right?

Jocelyn:

Ummm.

Malachi:

I think my shotgun needs

a good cleaning right about now.

Jocelyn:

Really? You’re going

to go cliché?

Malachi:

If it terrifies the tar out

of the kid so he makes certain he

keeps his hands to himself

then you better believe it.

Jocelyn:

You’re overreacting.

Malachi:

I’ve been inside the head of

a teenage boy. There’s no such

thing as overreacting. Not

when it comes to my sister.

Jocelyn:

But you haven’t been inside

Miriam’s head.

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