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Renna should have known better than to trust Boyd when he said the job would be easy Her hand crept to the stolen pendant at her throat, squeezing it before tucking it back under her shirt Damn Boyd and his powers of persuasion If she’d known she’d end up spending four days crouched behind a stinking Dumpster, she would have thrown the contract back in his face Nothing orth having the s except enough money to buy a small planet

She shifted on her heels and studied the hulking steel building in front of her The warehouse itself see it and the perpetual presence of four aruards

The blue glow of the laser locks on each door cut through the h s let a little light into the cavernous building, but they were framed with thick, Saltani iron bars Noin that way Nothing cut through those suckers

Renna sighed At twenty-three, she was et out of the mercenary business, but Boyd had asked her for one last job and retrieving the qualified gae to pass up The newest tech fro distances, even off-world If anyone else found out it actually existed, it would start an intergalactic war

And despite the olfactory assault, her stakeout hadn’t been a complete waste She’d memorized the routine of the warehouse down to the second Two e every four hours If she tiht, she could sneak in the back door when Guard Number Four went for his daily constitutional

She shuddered Whatever the ular as clockwork

Renna slung her black polythene bag over her shoulder and twisted her ponytail tighter She should have cut off her da, dark locks were her one claih to enjoy the compliments

Not to mention all the secrets she’d been able to pick up with a sultry flip of her head

She crept from behind the Dumpster and down the filthy alley toward the back of the warehouse The Cordozas owned h to know that a lot of theirtheir credits than doing their jobs well Definitely made her life easier this time around

Her black leather boots made no sound as she cleared the corner of the co the entire electric fence Stupid The Cordozas thought they were invincible That no one would dare steal from them

They were about to find out differently

She pulled a nanotech spanner from her jacket pocket, directed the bea on the pole, and adjusted the frequency until the ave way in a burst of sparks, and the

Renna sineer of the V’Mani Electrical Company had been one of her better decisions Give him a few drinks and the man never shut up