Another Affliction excerpt

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LKH posted another excerpt on Facebook:

For your Monday enjoyment, here's another sneak peek from the next Anita Blake novel, Affliction:

There was a sort of movement, or sigh, in all the police in the hallway. The uniforms, and the two in street clothes, all reacted almost like grass in a meadow when the wind stirs it. I wasn't sure if they were reacting to the growing unpleasantness, or if they didn't like that at least three of us were "unnatural". We were in one of the handful of states where if someone killed Micah, or Dev, or Nicky, all they had to do was say, they feared for their life, and if the blood test came back positive for lycanthropy it was selfdefense without a trial, or anything. If you had witnesses that said, the shooting had been unprovoked you could be up on charges, but if the only other witness besides the shooter was conveniently dead, then it was a clean kill. I hadn't thought what that might mean for my men. My stomach tightened, my shoulders tensing, as I thought about that for everyone I'd brought with me. I was so used to the local police who worked with me seeing my boyfriends as people that I hadn't thought that not all police would be as understanding. Now that, really had been stupid and careless.

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