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Furious, he shoved Michael off her, only to find it wasn’t Peri Gagging, the African-American woman shouted, "Get out! Get out now!" into her radio before she was yanked back to a kneel with the rest of her tea at theto matter in five seconds," Michael said shortly as he snatched up the discarded radio and thu to kill your tea for you"

"You are so damn melodramatic," Bill said i it at the first asped as blood and hair , the man fell

"Three left," Michael said into the radio, then threw it from him when he realized the connection was broken Thin lips pressed together, Michael shifted his aier His Glock fired, and a secondwhere she bit it Bill frowned, well aware the Glock would turn on hih freedom to feel in control But every shot ate away at his botto

"Has Peri been accelerated?" Michael said as hea bloody hell of athe sale of the carbon scrubber turn to nothing, but he was curious hient said Arm extended, Michael coolly shot the back of his head

Bill’s breath slipped froun sounded ridiculously soft, and the ly, sudden splat

Stifling a cry of anger, the wo white-knuckled Da the carpet There was no way they could clean this up sufficiently fast enough; the inforet information without the threat of death She was an artist

"Lies are temporary," Michael said as he checked his chah for the four h the to lie, are you?" he asked the wo before him

The woman was pissed, even as she shook in shock Michael shoved theover her so his face was inches froun barrel just under her eye "Is Peri Reed accelerated?" he asked again "Tell ht and eyes closed

But Michael dropped back, brushing her hair fro her "Loyalty," he said softly, but there was no gentleness in his expression "It’s misplaced Harmony"

Her eyes flicked open, surprised, and Michael almost preened in the attention

"Kill her or don’t," Bill said griasped, and he hesitated; he’d just about had it with Michael’s uncouth ham-handedness

"I know your name, yes," Michael said, his thin lips inches fro "Your loyalty is ut tells you not to trust her You should listen to it Peri has done ugly things The White Plague, the first wave of Asian population decimation, the assassination of troublesome senators" He wiped a spot of blood from her with theback from the warm metal "She is not a nice woman You don’t like her I can see it in your face Is she accelerated? Is she waiting for her boyfriend to duplicate the Evocane first? How close is he?"