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Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.

Brianna__ looking for Drake,_ Edilio said, thinking out loud.__ou sent her out against Drake?_ Albert demanded.__ent her? Who sends Brianna out to get into a fight? She goes on her own. Anyway, it__ not like you__e left us with anyone else.__lbert had the decency not to say anything to that.__ou know, you guys put me in charge. I didn__ ask to be in charge. I didn__ want to be in charge. Sam was in charge and all you guys ever did was give him grief,_ Edilio said. __ou two, especially._ He pointed at Albert and Astrid. __o, okay, Astrid takes over. And then Astrid finds out it__ not so much fun being in charge. So it__ like, okay, let__ get the dumb wetback to do the job.___o one ever_,_ Astrid protested.__nd me, like a fool, I__ thinking, okay, that must mean people trust me. They asked me to be in charge, be the mayor. Come to find out, I__ not making decisions; Albert__ making decisions. Albert__ deciding we need to find more water and sending our two best fighters off into the countryside. Now I__ supposed to fix everything? It__ like you go, __ight a war,_ but you sent my army off on a wild goose chase.

Well_ er -___xpecting a rescue is beyond hope under the circumstances!_ Sam Barthoff, Mayor of Atro City, interrupted grimly, throwing up his hands in hopelessness. __opeless!

She should pull away, even though she had begged for it with her smart mouth. She should punish him for every crime he__ perpetrated. For being too good-looking, too sexy, too everything. But the kiss was like him__ust too damn good. Warm and brutal, providing answers to questions she never knew she had. He teased with his tongue along the seam of her mouth, seeking that last nudge of acceptance as if it was his God-given right.She parted her lips, and like a predator hinged on her threshold, he took.

What is the matter with people?_ Sam fumed. __ said we needed a hundred kids and we get thirteen? Fifteen, maybe?___hey__e just kids,_ Astrid said.__e__e all just kids. We__e all going to be very hungry kids.___hey__e used to being told what to do by their parents or teachers. You need to be more direct. As in, Hey, kid, get to work. Now._ She thought for a moment then added, __r else.___r else what?_ Sam asked.__r else_I don__ know. We__e not going to let anyone starve. If we can help it. I don__ know the __r else._ All I know is you can__ expect kids to just automatically behave the right way. I mean, when I was little my mom would give me a gold star when I was good and take away a privilege when I wasn__.___hat am I supposed to do? Tell three hundred kids spread out in seventy or eighty different homes that they can__ watch DVDs? Confiscate iPods?___t__ not easy playing daddy to three hundred kids,_ Astrid admitted.____ not anyone__ daddy,_ Sam practically snarled. Another sleepless night, in a long string of them, had left him in a foul mood. ____ supposed to be the mayor, not the father.___hese kids don__ know the difference,_ Astrid pointed out. __hey need parents. So they look to you. And Mother Mary. Me, even, to some extent.

A young, beautiful mayor__ with high-powered plans for the city of Compton must put them aside to become a sleuth to solve the assassination of her husband, the mayor.