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“Then open the doors and let us look!” the woain While she yelled and the crowd picked up her chant—let us look, let us look— Holden took the security supervisor by the elbow and pulled his head close

“In about thirty seconds, that et into that ship,” he said “I think you should let theave a huh “It’s already violent The only reason the ship isn’t long gone is because one of the-clamp release mechanism If they try to take the ship, we’ll—”

“They will not take the ship,” said a gravelly voice, and a heavy hand came down on Holden’s shoulder When he turned around, one of the corporate goons was standing behind him “This ship is Mao-Kski Mercantile property”

Holden pushed the uys with Tasers and shotguns isn’t going to stop theoon looked hiive a drippy shit what you or the OPA thinks about anything, and especially notstarts?”

Well, he’d tried Holden san to reach for the holster at the small of his back He wished that Aotten off the ship Before he reached the pistol, his hand was enveloped by long slender fingers and squeezed tightly

“How about this,” Naomi said, suddenly at Holden’s side “How about we skip past the posturing and I just tell you how this is actually going to work?”

Both Holden and the goon turned to look at Naoesture and pulled out her hand terminal She called someone and turned on the external speaker

“Aer up

“Yep,” ca to leave from port 11, pad B9 It’s full of food we could really use here If it h to intercept?”

There was a long pause; then, with a chuckle, A this to?”

“Call that ship and have thehter Then have an OPA tea, and scuttle it”

Aot it”

Naomi closed up the terminal and put it back into her pocket

“Don’t test us, boy,” she said to the goon, a hint of steel in her voice “Not one word of that was eo, or we’ll take the whole daoon stared at her for a moment, then motioned to his team and walked away Port security followed, and Holden and Nao up the dock and to the loading bay doors

When they were out of danger of being tra shot standing up for justice probably seeone fro an idiot”

“S the ship,” Holden said

“You were acting like that assle Detective Miller, so I just acted like you used to What I said was the kind of thing you say when you’re not in a hurry to wave your gun around”