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"I’m sorry, babe I didn’t know this would happen"

Frustration spun back into anger, and she rounded on him "Where is it!" she shouted, her hands in fists as he picked up the silver fraer down her pictured face Tears pricked and she ca to take it fro it For all she knew, the picture ht not even exist "Jack, where’s the list?"

He looked up, tears in his eyes "I don’t think it’s here"

Peri’s breath ca? "They have it?"

"No" His gaze traveled over the destruction, clearly pained "It’s just not … here" Then: "You should have left You waited too long I’ spun her around and Jack vanished "Silas!" Peri exclaihtened, Silas caught his balance as Bill strode in after hi that Silas’s hands were cuffed before hi that you’re here on your own Curious," Bill said, looking un pointed at one of Silas’s kidneys "If you jump, I shoot him in the new draft and he dies Very fast" Bill is an anchor? It was the only way he’d know if there was a draft or not

"I shouldn’t have left you, Peri," Silas said, his eyes haunted "I’m sorry"

Fro, "Is she down?"

Bill s Silas deeper into the room "He’s afraid of you"

"Maybe he’s the smarter man here," Peri said as two unremarkable men in suits caone wrong, so very wrong

The prick of a dart striking the back of her neckhold as a chalky taste covered her tongue She gripped the dart like a knife, unable to draft now if she wanted to She turned, seeing the un, blood dripping froainst the wall

"Whore," he breathed raggedly, and Peri backed to the bulletproof s

"No," Bill said jovially "No need to be nasty She’s doing e trained her to do Ready to learn a new trick, Peri?"

Her boots ground on the spilled dirt from her plants "Shove it up your ass"