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Usage examples of averill.

I saw Averill prance by in the arms of an immortal sylph in pink satin.

With Averill and Tina, and especially with Zia, she’d been able to relax and act silly occasionally, like a normal person.

It was only logical that Zia spend more and more time with Averill and Tina, until finally they all realized they had to get some more papers forged, showing the couple as Zia’s par­ents.

By the time Zia was four, Averill and Tina were Daddy and Mom to her, and Lily was Aunt Lil.

She knew for a fact that between them the two agents had salted away enough cash to live in relative comfort for the rest of their lives, plus Averill had been doing okay for himself with a computer-repair shop.

Since Averill and Tina had evidently felt this was something that had to be taken care of immediately, what­ever it was had been imminent.

He relied instead on his excellent memory, which pro­duced the names Averill and Christina Joubran, retired contract agents.

She’d never actually had a residence here, instead staying with friends-usually Averill and Tina-or at a B and B.

In the best-case scenario, she would discover what it was that had lured Averill and Tina out of retirement, and whatever it was, would be so horrible that the civilized world would distance itself from the Nervis and they would be put out of business.

Tina had been a friendly person, Averill more aloof, but to Zia there’d been no such thing as a stranger.

The way she saw it, she could either walk away and let Rodrigo Nervi continue to flourish, without making any more effort to find out what had been so important to Averill and Tina that it had cost them their lives, or she could cross her fingers for luck and accept Swain’s aid.

She was mine, she was my daughter even though I let Averill and Tina adopt her because there was no way I could take care of her or provide her with a stable home while I was off on a job.

Lily felt sick that she had been right, that it was something concerning Zia that had spurred Averill and Tina to the act that had eventually resulted in their deaths.

Lily had never really thought about demolitions from a mathematical standpoint, though she’d known Averill had taken pride in calculating the strength of his charges to exactly what was required to do the job, and nothing more.

What Averill and Tina had started, she was about to finish, in honor of a young girl who had died while she was still trem­bling on the cusp between childhood and adolescence.