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"ALL RIGHT! FUCK! ALL RIGHT! I’LL TELL YOU!" Dorian raises his head, pressing it against the wall His chest rises and falls rapidly underneath his black shirt Sweat has beaded on his forehead, dripping down the sides of his face He can hardly keep his body upright as his back begins to slouch farther; only the soles of his boots grounded against the floor, his knees bent, keeping hi down all the way

"I’ence," Dorian confesses to the shock of everyone in the rooely relieved He looks across the room at us At Victor "But it’s not what you think," he says, fighting through the pain "I’m not here to betray you, Faust"--he pauses to catch his breath--"I never was…it’s not what you think…"

Victor says nothing Not even his deed, but on the inside I feel it’s a un on the floor and kick it aside," Victor tells Nora, his gun still trained on the back of her head

Nora’s ar down onto her index finger as she releases her grip on the handle Slowly she takes two steps backward away froun on the floor She rises back into a stand and kicks it gently away from the easy reach of her or Dorian

With her hands still raised she turns around, a s over her shoulders and partially covering one brown eye

"Niklas," Victor says without aze from Nora, "tie her up Hands and feet and torso And et out of it"

"Gladly," Niklas says with his tradeet whatever he plans to use to tie her up with

Minutes later, Nora is bound to her chair so tight by several yards of paracord that the only thing she can seeers, and her head

No one said anything while Niklas tied her up, and still the air is rife with silence several unshot wounds, even es to keep his discoe

Two men in suits come into the room behind us and Victor orders them to detain Dorian and take him to cell C

"But you have to listen to ed across the room "At least let me talk before you kill me, Faust Give me a chance to explain , and as always, his dark silence speaks frightening volumes that words can never match

"Wait!" Nora calls out "Letbefore you take him away!"

Thehis permission Victor nods, and then the men, one on each of Dorian’s arms which are cuffed behind his back, turn hi the floor

He raises his head weakly to look at her, pain h his body

"That ex-wife of yours is very loyal," Nora says "Skittish and a little stupid, but loyal I was surprised"

"What do you mean?" Dorian says with a sneer "She told you aboutdo to her?"

Nora looks at hi es, "she wasn’t the one who told --you were"

Dorian curses her as the rasps We hear hith of the hallway until his curses are shut off by the elevator doors