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"That’s it?" he calls out as I’ for a reaction to anything or everything, but that’s not the way I win, thus it won’t happen

I pause at the door and look at hiht of the IV running through his array eyes, hollowed though they seem, narrow on "

That’s all the good-bye I need and I exit the roo toward the elevators to find Derek and aze catching onhis stare He steps toward ance puffs up his head "Is this where you tell ?" he asks

"I’ that’s possible I’m done with you" I step around him

He calls out, "You’ll never win"

I don’t turn, and my lips curve with satisfaction at the words everyone I ever beat had said when they started to feel fear I start walking and I don’t look back Not now and not ever again

My next stop is at the bank to wrap up the purchase of the apart up thewhen Seth calls to let round zero and is headed es a showing at another don high-rise apart By the time I step off the elevator on the twenty-fifth floor it’s nearly lunchtime

Once I’, I find lass table To ht is Nick Snyder, a man casually dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, his blondish hair starting to gray

"As you know," Seth says, "Snyder X Security is the company I’ve contracted to ith us Nick is the founder and the reason why I chose them"

"We met on an FBI-CIA combined task force," Nick offers "And I was undercover in a biker gang for seven years A gang that has soest rival"

"He took a bullet for me and saved my life," Seth adds

I flick Nick a look "Your credentials are good but I don’t know you I don’t trust you I trust Seth, and since he trusts you, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt"

"Good thing," Nick says, his glacier-green eyes glinting hard "Because you need ie on the table "That’s what your trucking co for Martina"

"Coke," Seth says, confirhon?"