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"I may understand you, Ivan But don’t think we are the same," he said quietly

"I would never make that mistake, my friend"

"Did the cartel know?"

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Carlos had disappeared Rory was gone He hadn’t caught a whiff of any te waitresses on the way in Ivan had indeed learned a lesson in caution

"You were operating right under their nose, but they didn’t even get a cut Plausible deniability? Or were they truly unaware?"

Ivan’s s any business without their permission… hypothetically…"

"Of course"

"Then I’d hardly worry about theet…" He winced dramatically "So complicated No one would want that Why, then they’d have to find someone else to run this territory and clean up their messes, wouldn’t they? And they’d have to admit that someone was more clever than them"

"Hypothetically"

Ivan raised both eyebrows innocently "Of course"

"And Juarez?"

Ivan shrugged "Such an odd situation Who knohat is happening there? It could be any nus So often, people make assumptions Especially humans"

So Ivan had used the Juarezfor the connection between the two As far as Baojia was concerned, they could keep looking He was confident they would find nothing pointing to either Ivan or his work out sometimes, isn’t it?"

"How so?"

"If I were involved with so as murdered women--"

"And human hunts?"

"So you say And if someone were to clean up all the loose ends for me… Kill everyone involved, for instance Whoever did that would be doing rew keen "No one to spread lies It would leave me… quite blameless Hypothetically"

Baojia leaned forward "Wherever has Carlos run off to?"