Chapter 1
“Oh, f**k me, that hurts!”
Alexi Summerville snorted. “I bet it does. Your face is swollen, your arms are swollen.” He stepped back and stared hard at Roach Haines, who sat straddling a kitchen chair while Alexi applied first aid. “In fact, you look like Violet from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.”
Roach frowned in confusion. “Who the hell is Violet?”
“The one that blows up like a big blueberry.”
He gasped. “Wait, what? I’m blue?”
Alexi laughed. “Well, no. But you know what I mean. How many times did the wasps sting you?”
Sighing dramatically, Roach winced when he realized even that hurt. In all the time Lonnie “Roach” Haines had been working as an exterminator, five years to be exact, he’d been in a few mishaps. Once a rat had chomped his finger—he’d needed shots
