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I’ tis to me I hike my skirt up and pull the knife frohts "He said that’s enough"

She backs up and whirls to face me "Ha! Your little child bride is here to save you, Nick? Are you skills really that bad, Eleven?"

"I’m not here to save hiht--"

The knife sticks her right in the throat Shesound and clutches at the blade But it’s useless I hit an artery She falls to the ground choking on her own blood

I look at Nick’s face for a clue to how he’s gonna take this "I usually warn theave me a chance" And then I offer a s here?" He doesn’t reciprocate the s the day I brought him here"

"Do you have it?" he asks, hope in his voice

"You have it!"

"I don’t fucking have it! That’s ere just arguing about She didn’t believe et any more complicated? I look down at hter has already started I can hear the AK’s and screao back up there

I grab Nick’s aro"

"What?" he asks, barely turning to faceabout, Sash? Harper’s up there!"

"Jao This is our chance to get out To get away Let the gangs take out the Coet Harper out and et another boat and leave Let them mess with the files We don’t need the stupid files"

But the whole ti his head "We need those files more than you know, Sasha We can’t leave here without them I can’t leave here without Harper You stay here, wait for Merc I’ll go get Harp and Jaht back"

"No!" I sto put last Why can’t you putfor o!"

I push hiht "I did put you first, Sasha I left you in that hotel and told you to move on Get a life Live it I put you first and you ca plan that Tet cooked up and you bought like it was on sale for Christht now? You can’t plan a job like this and then go half in You can’t leave your team behind That’s bullshit"

"I don’t care! I just want us to live I just want us to get away and live our lives"