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"Sometimes bad shit happens, and you have to protect the people you love," Leon said "It would be nice if you can do that and keep your hands clean, but life doesn’t work that way Life is messy, and sometimes you must do what needs to be done to keep your family safe It doesn’t make you a bad person"

I’d have to thank Kurt

"One day some other Prime will threaten our House, and when that day comes, I’ll kill him"

What?

"I’ll do it quiet and clean, and nobody will ever know" Leon s to be a dark horse, House Baylor’s secret I’ll be the best assassin A legend They’ll never see le him with my bare hands

I stoan’s HQ, where Heart and Bug waited for ’s chair to hide

"Where is Kurt?" I growled

Bug blinked "I’!"

"Kurt is a valuable member of the team, and you have murder on your face"

"What did he do?" Heart asked

"He talked to Leon, and now my sixteen-year-old cousin has decided to be an assassin when he grows up"

Bug pondered it "Well, you have to admit it’s not a bad option for so!"

"What else is he going to do? Co to throw at hiest Leon become an assassin," Heart said "That’s not Kurt’s philosophy"

"And, before you go on a warpath," Bug added, "your dinner is in seventy-two minutes, so you’ll have to hunt Kurt down after your date with Garen"

"It’s not a date"

"Pardonin a rolea sexy pantsuit," Bug said

"I’ a run-away-fast-if-necessary pantsuit For your inforht it at Macy’s, on sale, for two hundred dollars, because occasionally I have to do surveillance in the city and it makes me look like I’m on my way back to my cubicle Garen Shaffer probably finds two hundred bucks when he e raised his hands in the air "I rong What equip?"

"Why would I tell you that?"

"I just want to know if you’re packing good stuff or one of those cheap-ass ten-frae cameras"

"I’m a PI Surveillance is my bread and butter" Dad had always stressed the iood equipment, which hy I updated ours every year "I’ll transmit live feed to Bern"

"But I want to watch"

"You can watch with Bern"

"But an?"

"Soht he said he would take a jet to Austin"

"He did There is a hailstor said

I really wanted to see hi?" Heart asked

"I’ Bunny"

"Who’s Bunny?" Heart asked

"Doberers curved and touching, i jaws "Teeth"

"Molly’s Pub is in the same plaza," Heart said "Three of our people will be there One of the?"

"If I need help, I’ll cover the caer and hold it for a second Bern knohat it means"