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He laughed "I should’ve addressed it to ‘the Troid’"

"Then you’d be dead"

"Yeah," he said, suddenly serious "I’d be dead"

"Once I knehere you’d gone," she said, "I kept those ships on standby As soon as you were outside the building, I homed in on your GPS coordinates to see if you needed help" She punched hi"

To it because our friend needed us to destroy that transmitter, Medusa I couldn’t have asked you to risk that"

"You didn’t have to," she told hiuess not," Too, before Capitol Summit, he’d tried to ask her to take a dive for hi himself to do it He’d known she’d say no Why would anyone do that for him? She’d said to him afterward that maybe it would’ve been a possibility He hadn’t believed her Not even long afterward Not until nohen she’d done so so hazardous just for his sake The realization rocked through To Obsidian Corp’s attention to herself and she’d done it for hirip tensed around her, because he had this sudden, terrible sense soo "I have to ask you so for it, her eyes searching his

Tom stroked her black hair nervously "Listen" He licked his lips, his sto I hope I’ain"

"Now?"

"Now" His voice was intent "Is your narip, and To inside hi it was

"How did you" she breathed "Did you go in the personnel files in the Citadel? I told you not to do that, Tom!"

"I didn’t" Tom clasped her shoulders, full of dread He leaned down so he could stare right into her eyes "Joseph Vengerov said it I interfaced with his neural processor, briefly--"

"His neural processor?"

"His neural processor," Toht when you said LM Ly you because he’s on to what you can do I couldn’t get into Obsidian Corp because he’d already figured out how to block our way He knows there’s a ghost in the machine He kno to detect us, block us, and when he found me in his syste one step, then another He wished she wouldn’t pull away fro upset her

"Don’t you see?" To to come for you, especially after what happened at Obsidian Corp I think this is why he wanted me to use the virus on you--he wanted to knock you out for a while to see if the ghost in the machine went ahen you did If that happened, he would have all the confirhost is He already suspects it’s you"

Her jaw set as she straightened to her full height "It’s good you warned me I’ll be careful"

"Careful won’t do it, Medusa! He knows"