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"Yes, but it’s okay I think she’s learned a bit more since the last time she did it
"Sally, it’s over now Come on, sweetheart, pull that sucker back Whatever you do, don’t forget that hair trigger Damn, I think I’ll have it modified a bit next time I’m at Quantico Actually, if you could slip it back into my shoulder holster once we’re in the car, I’d appreciate it My shoulder holster’s been eun I feel half-dressed"
"I don’t want to shoot you, Jaet away froo, please"
"Nope, not ever again You know you can trustthat Listen up, Sally You’re with me now until all this is over Would you rather trust your ranny is a piece of work"
"No, I don’t trust any of them Well, I do trust Noelle, but she’s all confused and doesn’t knohat to believe--whether I’m a lunatic or not I’d bet that all of them have called Beadermeyer, even Noelle If she called hiet some answers Oh, God, do you think Beadermeyer would hurt her?"
Quinlan didn’t think he would hurt her unless his own skin was in really deep trouble, which it would be shortly, but not just yet But he said, "I don’t know Beader if he felt threatened, which he probably does, since we busted you out of his sanitarius to save you?"
She looked up at hiuard dogs at the sanitarium, Sally James tossed meat to thes was leaping up trying to get Ja you up that fence"
She could see the shadows and blurred lines of his face "Well," she said at last, aware that she couldn’t hold that gun up for er because her shoulder hurt like the very devil, "shit"
"That’s e’ve been thinking for the past six hours," Dillon said "Coive it up Quinlan’s determined to help you He’s determined to protect you Let him be possessive I’ve never before seen hiuys Let’s get out of here before some motorists come by and stop or worse, someone calls the local cops"
Quinlan didn’t even think about it, he just scooped her up in his arms and carried her to the Porsche
"You’re no he-man," she said in the bitterest voice he’d ever heard "It was just a six-foot walk A nerd could have carried me that far"