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"You’ve had worse luck with girls," he points out, widening the rip in et at the plastic with the pliers "Rehed at you?"

I wince as he loses his grip on the remnants of the cocktail sword "I was thirteen, shut up"

"Or Aoife? Or Alejandra?"

"What are you talking about? Alejandra and I--"

"Poor girl felt sorry for you" He huffs, pulling the thing free and holding it up for us both to take a look at it It’s annoyingly small, the hot pink still visible beneath the darker red of rabs at the wall beside him for support "No wonder you were able to capture her, if this is all she had to ith"

"Just bandage it up, Sean, before I start listing your romantic failures We’ll be here all day"

By the tihter couldn’t last forever, but it was enough of a rest to let me breathe a little easier Sean’s my pressure valve, hter as we’ve got We lean against the rocky wall for a little, side by side, eyes on the unconscious soldier tied up near the far side of the cave

"What the hell, man?" Sean breaks the silence, his voice quiet "What were you even doing on their base?"

I hesitate If I tell Sean about the facility I saw, he’ll insist we send scouts, and how can I tell hi Things are getting tense, and I wanted to knohat’s in the wind"

He groans, tipping his head back to let it s ht McBride’s just waiting for the chance to ht, without you there to speak against it Where does the trodaire come into this?"

"She spottedher to our home? To risk discovery?"

"She has inforrit my teeth "You think I should’ve killed her?"