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Chapter 4

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Archie stumbled over the threshold while tearing off his pea coat. The bookstore had been in his family for generations, though no one had chosen to live there before him. His hair was dripping, his heart thudding, and his mind screaming at him to lock the door ten times over to prevent anyone from ever entering again.

The bell chimed a second time as Edie pushed the door open behind him. “That went well.”

“Did it?” Blood soaked his shirt sleeve where the ugly little mutt had bitten him, and his arm pulsed and ached. He unbuttoned the cuff and pushed up the sleeve, revealing small puncture wounds, and not from one bite, no, the cursed dog had bitten him twice.

Edie winced. “We got paid.”

“I need a doctor.”

She snorted. “Melodramatic much? It’s a tiny little bite wound.”