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Chapter 25

Guy looked down at Shadow before telling the others, “He’d be at attention if there were.”

With that, they broke into a run, crossing the lot then dropping to their knees to crawl under one of the docks.

“Not the cleanest spot in town,” Tone said, pushing away a pile of trash with a short board he found. “But it’ll do.”

Guy grinned. “Getting fussy about our housing arrangements?”

“Well…yeah. I want a real bed, in a real room, that we don’t have to share with the rats and bugs.”

“Rats? Where?” Dani squeaked while she peered around the dark space.

“I’m kidding,” Tone assured her as he unrolled his sleeping bag. “Well, about rats, anyway. No guarantee on the bugs.”

“Can’t be worse than the roaches in the one basement where we crashed,” Mack said.

“That was ugh. You’d think I’d be used to all that by now but…” Dani shuddered.

“I don’t think that’ll ever happen. At least not until we’re a hell of a lot older and resigned to never getting off the streets.”