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d packing yet, but he wanted to get everything ready and in its place so he could do his packing in one fell swoop. It had become a force of habit;

rt of his head that he had rammed against the upper part of his wardrobe as he straightened sharply. Jordan smiled as he heard

his waist as he called ou

sile

he said, “If you don’t show yourself an

oot us,” came a young ma

a smacking sound, “Oh, kill me.” He could imagine his cousin smacking her forehead as she roll

he ones!” Her brother retorted,

ture perfectly what was going on. Now she was trying to ge

Fuka! Fuka!” her

ar let

f her shoes, and she stood with her leg suspended in the air as she looked at him, while Henley had his hand in h

ourselves at my door, do come rig

abandoned the task of killing her bro

him sheriff. Who is the stupid one now

so much with her eye-rolling that he had vowed to learn how to do it. Jordan had caught hi

it from that girl,” he had gr

eputies. The two of them ended up doubling in laughter when Jordan compared them to a pair of owls who had something stuck in their eyes and were trying to get it out. Henley had requested a rank in the pol

him and said, “He is no longer the Sheriff, idiot. He resigned! I wo

is tongue again “Y

” she asked. She reac

I have already resigned, and I am not willing to mop up anybody

kly raised her hand to it to stop him as Jordan said as if

brother mutter as he let g

they had something to say, and if they were being this reluctant to say it out, they probably thought he would refuse, and if

d never outgrown his collection of comic books. He had the latest and the oldest of his favorite series, Rajun.” Rajun had been popular back at Baleria, and he had thought he would not be able

e time for comics anyway. Maybe it was time to out

d off any morbid thoughts for the remainder of the days he had to use wit

ind back to the

ad arrived in the world shortly afte

ficult with his uncle just so he could send him back, and pretending that his eighth-year-old cou

g the not-so-bustling ho

he was leaning against the door jamb, posi

ibly clear eyes at him. Then, as if by agreement, they

er remaine

f them shouted in unison, jol

not been ex