I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

Where is your unit?" Murphy asked. I wiggled my eyebrows at her. "Right where it's always been, dollface.

So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare somewhere nearby.

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped over to the car. I leaned forward, opened the door, and she got into the backseat. I threw her the extra clothes I had picked up, and she began to dress without comment. It worked," I said. "We did it." Of course it worked," Tera said. "Men are foolish. They will stare at anything female and naked.

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.