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He nods slowly, grih his shoulders

"Perhaps you shouldn’t have told her anything," I point out "A professional operative, whether one orks for me or the CIA or for anyone else, would never reveal such a top secret job to anyone You did it twice First to Tessa, and then to Nora, to save your own life"

"No," he says quickly, "I never would’ve given up ive a shit if Nora killed me--I only told her because I knew that if I didn’t she’d kill Tessa"

He is truthful in those words, I strongly believe

"But even for her," I say, "you should never have told her anything She is a civilian An innocent And by telling her the truth, you et"

"I know," he says, shaking his head and looking at the floor again, "but when it comes to her, I’m weak I always have been You should know, Faust"--his eyes lock onto mine--"you love Izabel You should understand why I had to tell Tessa so"

"You told her simply because she had suspicions," I say "I could stand here all day and tell you why that reason is unacceptable, but that’s not why I ca to kill me?" he asks almost listlessly

Dorian Flynn is not afraid to die, and a part of hiht about death e of quiet despair inside of this , facetious face he wears in front of all of us is just aa somewhat troubled soul

"You have five minutes to explain," I announce "At the end of that fiveto kill you"

He nods

A betrayal such as this one, when an operative secretly works for another ee, would almost always come with the heaviest of consequences--immediate death But one must be careful to dish out such a sentence before first knowing from that person what information has been leaked, and to whom And the fact that he is a private contractor for US Intelligence also ut and The Order co on the nature of his status with his superiors and what kind of private contractor Dorian is, it ent," Dorian says, "and in case you think I’m easy to break, that if you ever were to send ot co I was coather inforht, I was allowed to approach the leader and tell him the truth about who I aovern to tell you the truth eventually"

"You said approach ‘the’ leader"

He nods "Yes My anization, before you took over and I becaut for more than thirty years Kind of like that succubus out there"--he nods toward the wall, indicating Nora--"Vonnegut is a ghost No one that I have ever known or heard of even knohat he looks like, or if he’s even a ht we had him, we’d find out at the last er bounty on any man’s head on this planet than the one on his"