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Bloody hell

I turned to see Sideburns, looking a little roughed up but as short, squat, and fiery as before, in white pants and a red jacket He still had the brass knuckles on his left hand

"That’s a pansy-ass outfit," I said Last ti to lose

"I want rinned beneath a heavy mustache "That’s what I like to hear"

And that’s when he pulled out a beat-up black Glock

Rosa would come out any second I had to shut this down "You sure have a lot of those lying around" I leaned against the wall as if I couldn’t give a shit about anything

Sideburns passed the gun fro you, but I tell you what Hand over that ride, and we’ll call it square"

The fact that he hadn’t shot me already meant that either he wasn’t locked and loaded, or else he had a reason to believe he couldn’t get aith it at this moment Maybe too many cops around, not that I had any faith in the law enforcement in Zona Norte

"Let’s take a look at it, see if it h standards" I pushed away from the wall and backed up to the bike

Sideburns narrowed his eyes, and I gave hi the leather saddlebag He was assuun was in there, and noas close to it

Still, he didn’t pophim back

"Built it ed How stupid could he be, when I shut hiround, and a sharp crack of ainst his wrist forced hiht then and screa atto hide

I delivered a bone-crushing blow to his jaw to slow him down and pinned his chest with my knee Rosa, to her credit, calun I could see she knew her way around a weapon, so I jumped off Sideburns and let him stand as she aimed the Glock at his head

"Puta," he spat at her

"Su madre es puta," she said

"Ay yi yi" Sideburns held out his hand to receive his gun back

"Don’t give it to him," I told Rosa "It has your prints"

She shook her head at azine in her left hand She tossed it ht it

I was about to remind her of the round in the chamber when she jerked the slide and cupped the last bullet in her hand She threw the gun at Sideburns’s face