A bad day for sunshine darynda jones5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() “And thirty-five thousand species of spiders.” “Did you know there are over five million species of insects in the world?” He was handsome but not in a charming way. Something Sun couldn’t quite put her finger on. Still, there was something off about him. He’d make some lucky girl a fine ex-husband one day. On a scale of one to Ferrari, Carver was a solid Ford Explorer. “It’s just, in case you’ve ever wondered-” “Not that Loki had anything to do with my job.” His height alone was enough to turn heads.Īnd he’d been graced with thick muddy curls. “Then there was the time I tried to tame a jellyfish.” Carver wasn’t the worst date she’d ever had. “I will never stick my hand inside an RV’s plumbing system again.” ![]() “Another time, I thought I’d been bitten by a copperhead and fell down three flights of stairs.” “Last year I was attacked by a swarm of carnivorous beetles.” Ripping out one’s facial hair took nerve. “There’s a lot more to pest control than people realize.” She looked across the table at said date-the third one her parents had set her up with in as many weeks-and feigned interest by lifting a brow in dire need of professional attention. Their deaths would be slow and methodical and painful. Sunshine stared into her cup of coffee as though it were a witch’s cauldron, a window revealing all the ways she could kill her parents. ![]()
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