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Shantel... could that be her lab buddy? It would seem so -- at least someone who'd given them insights into Serenex's workings. No going back? So it was permanent, then. That was simultaneously comforting and yet confusing. How had Isa and Candy gotten out of it, then?

Candy shrugged. "Oh, who cares. The whole point of this is to neuter the sick fuck, isn't it?" Oh FUCK let that be metaphorical. "After what he's done to those girls, I could give two shits if that's because we tell him to leave them the fuck alone or we turn his ass into a vegetable."

"We're not having this pointless discussion again. We'll do what we have to, what we can do, and then we'll figure out how to fix the girls and that neighbor lady of his. But you know I have to keep the sonofabitch safe."

"His 'protector' to the end, eh," grumbled Candy. This was protecting me?!

"I don't have a choice. I didn't give you shit about fucking Abbie Stern."

"Yes you did! You so did!"

"Well, not for very long." She shrugg