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“No”
“Why?”
“I never gloated over killing anyone”
She stopped s my respects to a worthy opponent”
“We also just intercepted Montoya’s eo? Nice touch A billion dollars is a good payday And best of all, it provided a direct link from you to him His days are quite numbered now too”
She looked around at all the armed men “Doesn’t look like I’ll be able to spend that billion dollars” She paused “I have to co out the nanobots and the scents I really thought I had that one well covered”
“You did It was ”
“I doubt that No one is that lucky When Montoya saw the president walk away fro he was not a happy man”
“Hence your comeback plan?”
She nodded “You always have a plan B, because plan A doesn’t alork”
“Most people would have simply cut and run by then”
“I only had half the billion I wanted it all And I wanted to see the plan through If I could The best ones do, you know Point of pride”
“You almost did”
“Doesn’t really ht I had all bases covered at Murder Mountain”
“You did,” said Stone “Particularly with the third exit Can I ask how you ed that?”
“Like I said, I studied you in the classroom”
“Okay, enough of this crap,” came a loud voice, and Riley Weaver ent Ashburn right behind
“How did you get so totally screwed up, Frieder at her
She didn’t even bother responding to hioes his oay I found two other Triple Sixers who knew of the exit through the kitchen So I knew you’d have found another way, one that only you would know”
“Why?” asked Stone
“Because you didn’t trust anyone other than yourself Not even your fellow assassins Not really”
“What made you think that?”
“Because I never trusted anyone either Other than myself”
“How’d you find it?”
She looked at the etting a little stiff You can see that I’unned”
“Just keep your hands where we can see theents
Holding her hands in front of her, she turned back to Stone and continued “Once I knew I’d use Murder Mountain, I went over every inch of the place The front door was to the west The back door was to the east One couldn’t go down So I went up And there it was, much like how you left it Now I answered your question How about mine?”
Stone looked at Chapman