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"The leech?" Gates supplied, with a belly laugh "She’ll be the last one in If she even ht up at that Leech Me That was a new one I’d been called so s, the only part I found offensive was the idea that I couldn’t handle a trip back and forth across the city without getting caught
"She’s far ued, "it’s just aShe doesn’t obey us, and it ainst ue handled "liabilities" I also kneould handle any agent who tried
Sen leaned back, bracing her hands on the tile "The plan stays the sa of chips he’d just deo for another bagel"
A tub of pretzel sticks and a bag of hot dog buns That’s what they were bringing back for seventeen kids and the handful of agents that had been stuck behind babysitting while the others went out to collect food and intel
When they started to cliainst the building, waiting for thelance each way down the intersection My hands were still clenched when I stood and started trailing theood half block between us until the warehouse finally came into view
Before they crossed that final street, Sen held a lighter up above her head, a single flaent posted on the roof could see There was a faint whistle in response--the signal to approach
I ran, closing the last bit of distance before the wo up the fire escape after the others
"Agent Sen!" My voice was a harsh whisper
The wo around, one hand on the ladder, the other reaching for the handgun tucked into the holster of her coear It took me a un inthe to Gates and Ferguson to continue up the fire escape
Not happy to see It’s" I hoped she’d think the tree of exploding "I don’t trust Cole with this"
That had her interested Her teeth flashed in the dark
"What is it?" she asked
This time, I smiled And when I slammed into her h es aside faster than they could solidify in my mind I felt her jerk, tremble under the force offor She had iined it so vividly, plotted it all out with aabout the idea had an unnatural luster to it, like warnized as belonging to the kids upstairs were half-hidden by gags Dust-coloredfor air by the tih I had just enough thought to twist her memory, to plant a false one in the place of the last fewpast her to get to the ladder