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I’ht be dead

Harper is in big trouble

My proet any worse?

I have no idea how long I lie there before I get up and fish my phone out ofup on the first ring

"I need you to coet me"

"I’onna have to figure this shit out yourselves I knohen to cut oing to save Harper hiet that file back How can you be out? You have the other half of the file"

He’s silent for a few et you, we’re heading toto Santa Barbara where Nick thinks they took Harper You owe o to Santa Barbara and help Nick"

"Kid, we’re gonna need an ar us and going to meet them on their own territory is one of the more stupid ideas Nick has had lately"

"I don’t care I’s to hold on to in my life James, Harper, and Nick are pretty o fix this shit alone OK? So co but silence on the other end But then Merc grumbles "Fuck I’m like two hours away Where the hell are you?"

I tell hiet dressed I eat the pancakes because they came from Nick, but I have to force the with the room key and sit in front of theuntil Merc’s truck pulls up in the parking lot

I walk out the door and clihts it up, blowing shway "Do you knohere the Santa Barbara place is? Because I sure don’t"

I sigh "I shouldn’t know But I do"

He laughs "That’s the story of your life, kid"

Ain’t that the truth? "We need an arht ahead "I knohere we can get an army"

"I bet you do"