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Not that I knew the question

"Ready?" Dune asked

"Unless you’ve changed your "

He put his hand on the doorknob

"Fine Now is the perfect ti for dinner, checking in, and there’s some sort of reception in the lobby"

"Why do you want more people instead of less people?

Shouldn’t you wait until the dead of night?"

"No" I checked ht Dune checking out my bare back "Too much security camera action if we do it that way"

"Why does that e your appearance" He picked up the key card and dropped it into his pocket

"Right But you can’t If you were Poe, this would’ve been simpler"

"I’rin

"I didn’t uest elevator to the second floor and wandered down the hall until we found the staff elevator We needed to take it to the lobby so we could enter fro with you," I said "I like you in general I wasn’t trying to be insensitive I wastruth, and as previously discussed, I can show you how not disappointed I will be later If we get through this without any incidents"

When the elevator doors closed behind us, I gave intohis jaw line

His expression was stoic "If you want to avoid an incident, you should probably not touch et into"

"Hallie" He grabbed ers and lowered our joined hands

"Saved by the elevator," I said as the doors opened

The lobby was hopping A few businessathered around the piano in the corner TheIn" at a roaring clip I shook ust

"People feed off stereotypes in the Quarter, and we grow thes like that, I wonder if it’s the irony of the locals or the idiocy of the infiltrators Plus, it’s a little hard to cause a distraction when there’s a sing-along happening"

"You could get on top of the piano," he said, without hed, a real one Dune could pull theic "We can wait until it’s a little callanced at his pants pocket to see if I could make out the Taser, but realized too late that it totally looked like I was checking out his assets

"I wassure you had your weapon," I blurted out when he raised his eyebrows

He grinned

"I was looking for the Taser in your pants" When he snort laughed, I closed et out of here?"

"I said no I have an idea Do you have the replacement crystal in your purse?"

I nodded

"Go stand by the case and get ready to make a move"