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mouth on her again, but she jerked his hair so hard that tears filled his eyes. He cried out.
'I reckon we gotta finish what we started,' she said.
'OK, OK.'
She released his hair and stepped back.
Trev reached down for his gun.
She stepped on his hand. Her knee crashed against his forehead. The blow knocked him backward. His hand pulled out from under her shoe. But without the gun.
He pushed himself up.
Sandy had the gun. It was aimed at his face. 'Get up off the street,' she said. 'We got us a job to do.'
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Of those from outside the restaurant who'd been taken-alive, the kid with the Mohawk haircut remained unconscious and one man had broken arms. There was no point in washing either of them.
Four others were in good enough shape to help defend the place: Bill the parking attendant; a kid of about sixteen wearing only a T-shirt; a young woman dressed in a nightgown; and the old fellow who'd tried to strike John with his golf club.
Bound and struggling, they were carried into the kitchen and placed on the floor near the wash tubs.

 
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