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To," Tom said brusquely He stooped and shoved the floor panel back on

"This obviously isn’t nothing," Vik said, pointing at the floor

"What are you doing here?" To Lyla Her rooo somewhere Giuseppe wouldn’t sit and watch us creepily," Vik said "Now your turn"

Tom shook his head "You don’t want to know"

"I asked, so yeah, I want to know"

"Why even bother?" Wyatt flared up "You wereMaybe you don’t want to know about this"

Vik blinked, his thick eyebrows raised "You’re talking again"

"Yeah, she’s talking," Tolad about that?"

"No," Tom said, and suddenly, he was furious with Vik He hadn’t even realized it until nohen anger, hot and vicious, ignited inside hiet to ask e’re up to You dropped us, not the other way around"

"It’s not like that," Vik protested

"Then what’s it like?"

The door slid open, and Lyla Martin strolled in They lapsed into silence For her part, Lyla shook her head and turned to Vik "No way," she told hied Wyatt, sending her a questioning glance Was she done?

She nodded

Tom turned to the standoffish Lyla, and the sheepish Vik "Don’t worry We’re outta here"

Vik didn’t call after them

SINCE NEARLY FREEZING to death, cold had becoroup hooked into the si in the middle of the bitter winter in Russia, he cursed inwardly His joints began to throb at the first nip of the icy wind, and that’s when Wyatt’s progra hie of the Obsidian Corp visit from Giuseppe’s point of view filled his vision, and To up his arreare of the crackling of gunfire as they engaged today’s enees from January

Giuseppe had obviously spentabout soes of Obsidian Corp were intercut with those es