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"What else are you keeping from us?" I say "This is a partnership" I kick over a table "Why the goryhell do you have s like this?"

"My fault," he says "My fault" He ss the blood in hismy shoulder as he passes Wind howls in "You did protect ain Thank you"

I scowl and brood in fine actorly fashion

"They couldn’t have been Reds," I say bitterly "Couldn’t have been Sons Sons never would have, could have done that Not to nar" I help the Stained froravBoots"

"You underestiers too And they would have pulled theainst our heads if you hadn’t stopped theet past your security?" Victra asks "Were there tracking devices? Signal janatures?"

"I don’t know," the Jackal says

Because the Sons held on to hostCloaks, like little barnacles

"Who else has coht He calls up his men on a com at his desk After a moment, he looks back up to us "Sun-hwa," he whispers "Her one like the wind She survived the last attack too" Then he laughs "She betrayed me" And when he sees the money transferred to Sun-hwa’s accounts, he’ll find all the corroborating evidence he needs to pin the bla is, Sun-hwa is loyal as a dog and dead as a doornail in the cargo hold of the shuttle that now tears away fro Fitchner, Sevro, and my once-captured friends

I coether atch the ship disappear beyond thevoice, "We will kill the rats, together I proDancer so hard his back cracks He taps e as a Telee-turned-makeshift-office, the Sons of Ares warehouse rattles with industry They brought st old engines and rusted aerlons

Dancer pulls back fro to think that I once considered him a handsoray Face creased by age and hardship His right ars And his s uneven, i er than all the rest of hiether He smells like tobacco Nails are yellow "My bloodydarand!" He laughs and laughs again, shaking his head "There are no words I’m sorry I couldn’t reach you Sorry I let Hars, Darrow"

"Stop" I clap the back of his neck "We’re brothers No need for apologies We’re bound by blood and past But please, please don’t let it happen again" He nods "How is my family, do you know?"

"Alive," he says "Still in the mines I know I know But that’s the safest place for them with this war abound No one wants to blow up Mars’s industry Register?