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A luiven her the Evocane knohat it would do to her, he had let her walk away knowing her path would lead to more trouble, not less, and he stayed behind toher the only way he could And for what? So he would feel that ache and guilt again when her choice was utterly gone and she was dead or Bill’s tool once ain He felt too deeply, too long

I never seerew She had two hours until she had to dose up, but unless she wanted to risk a full withdrahile dealing with Michael, she’d have to shoot up now--in front of Harmony It bothered her

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"Silas?" Peri fu loud as she uncapped it "I hardly reed her waistband down and jah The prick of the lance turned into a dull ache "But he reood for another twenty-four hours

Harlanced up, the woman’s expression unreadable in the unlit, snow-caked streets of abandoned Detroit "Not Silas Jack," Har the car?" she pro Apparently she did miss him--in a way "You’ve never worked with anyone before, have you?" Peri said, feeling like a drug addict as she tossed the spent injector into the trash

Harmony’s expression became closed "All the time I’ve never been afforded the chance to work alone"

"Iwith someone that you know each other’s moods, methods How fast he can hot-wire a car or that it takes hi it, five if they aren’t" That he likes his coffee with four inches of ice when it’s hot and he curses in Spanish when his cell phone craps out That he knohere your shoulder crae, and to turn up the TV when that cooat cory--misled, maybe

Peri stared across the car at her, wondering whether Harht run to Opti as Steiner had predicted "Enough to kill hiain, I’ll do just that"

Harmony’s shoulders eased Silent, she took a side street, cutting across the snow-covered parking lot of a sporadically lit Wally World It was al behind theure out why you’re doing this"

Harht that was in view of one of the security ca that doesn’t exist anyuilt, but not knohat it was there for "No," she said "I want to knohy Right now You don’t throw your career away trying to save it"

Har back on the wheel, she stared out the front"He butchereda mosquito He did it because they didn’t have the information he wanted That doesn’t deserve to walk around"

Peri’s thoughts sifted through the cracks in her frag on emotions without faces attached to the like that"

"Those were good people," Harht "He took everything fro they would have: days, years, births, promotions I survived because I was a woman and that bastard saved h," Peri said, wishing she’d stop talking Tooher ill with fracturedjust turned into ceet about it if I come back with Michael" Harmony reached for her purse, clearly not sure she believed it herself "I don’t care if you forget People forget battle trauma all the time"

Peri didn’t knohat to think about that, so she aze went to the big-box store, wondering whether that’s why they’d parked there, but Har h the arena? At night when there’s a perfectly good car? But then again, taking a car into as supposed to be an abandoned area would get the either option, Peri looked out the frontacross the weed-choked railroad tracks to the low cluster of boarded-up cos Behind them was even more dilapidated, unlit, and condeet the homeless and displaced off Detroit’s streets before reconstruction had begun None of it had been intended to lasthad been built

Calling it the arena had been the cops’ idea The concept was good, but it hadn’t gone well, and the s, prostitution, and gangs Every electoral year there was a push to get it cleaned up, but the way the cops figured it, if all the bad apples were in one basket, it was easier to catch those trying to sample the fruit Cops seldoht unless they were in well-arear