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"Then why did you coenuine curiosity

She looked away to the city lights flashing by her , "Because I was asked to"

"By God?"

Maria nodded

I sighed and glanced out my

So be it then

I turned back to Maria, "Okay so relationship, as you've ter ets because of past occurrences that she feels she is owed so out her

"Call me old-fashioned, but I require a verbal answer to that, as it denotes the respect that I am worthy of as a man"

To my surprise Maria turned her head away from theto meet my eyes and say, "Yes Sir"

Her eyes fell fro else?"

"Yes, there is In this roundtable discussion platfor on joint relations I've expressed one of ether Do you have a request of ed or different in my approach to you?"

Her eyes rose to mine and she softly said, "I would appreciate it if you'd stop looking at le me with your bare hands, burn my remains and toss the ash over a cliff into the sea"

I feltmy displeasure with the situation that ht about one thing I had alravesite would have been murder, because I'd had the ability to help her I hadn't walked away though and now her life was my responsibility

I reached my hand out to her and offered it in the traditional form of a business partnership She looked at my hand held in midair closely and for a er at the interlaced scars on rasp and we shook

Her eyes were still on my hand as I pulled it away and she asked, "How does that work? What you did to restore Utah and now me?"

"It's complicated, but if you would like I could teach you how to do it"

She gestured to herself in surprise, "I can do that?"

"Surprisingly yes"