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I would think anyone marked a carrier would be well acquainted with the sour taste of fear by now

Silence stretches He’s waiting, his gaze fastened on"I’ve learned to control what it is that I feel"

He chuckles and takes a bite of toast "You’re so full of it You’d like to believe that Or better yet, you’d like me to believe it"

I square my shoulders "Believe whatever you like about aze sweeps the rooht I resist the urge to touch hi It’s what I would have done for a friend And he’s that toit When someone saves your life once--make that twice--he can only be called a friend "I could tell everyone now But they’ll assu at the back of his neck "I don’t know if I could even stop the to protect htens "How are you so sure it’s not me?"

He looks at me, his eyes clear and deep and full of faith Faith inthat I feel I deserve

"Because you would have had no way to get a e out to anyone And you didn’t even knohere you were going to be I realize that" He nods out at the room "But they’ll be too emotional to see it that way And in Marcus’s case, too stupid"

"So you’re going to keep this to yourself?"

"Telling the"

I pull back my shoulders "Don’t worry about aze skiooseflesh As though he’s actually touching htness into do then? You can’t pretend he isn’t herewatching us" Waiting for the next ti to set a trap" He takes a long swig of orange juice fro sight

"What kind of trap?"

"Not sure Need to figure that out Our advantage is that this spy doesn’t knoe know he exists"

Our That single word fills me with equal a here I don’t want to be a part of so if it’s not too late for that and feeling a little panicked "I don’t have any ideas--"

"C’otta keep things together until the General gets back If Marcus had his e’d be charging off daily, shooting anyone not sporting one of these" He ers closing around it It’s strange that in this scenario, an ireat unifier

He leans forward across the table "And doyou don’t care I see you under your tough-girl act"