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Sorry, sucker You betrayed me first

“It’s rightly un

He didn’t look away froer

Lynn’s bullet hit Pablo in the forehead mounshot, and I dropped to my knees, unable to catch my breath, as I watched Pablo fall backward

The moment his body hit the floor, I felt such a sense of relief that it was hard to catch my breath

“It’s good, yes, that Iproud of himself

I got up, walked over to the cradle, and looked in

The only thing in there was a small plastic doll wrapped up in a hospital blanket—a doll that now had a bullet hole through its plastic skull

If Pablo had cared to look, he’d have seen that the baby wasn’t real

If he had half a brain, he would know that babies that were as s but an incubator to help theulate their temperature

I switched over the app onhard look at the nurses and doctor that flitted around lass incubators, and they were both covered from head to toe ires and tubes

It hurt my heart to see

“You missed one”

I whipped around in tihly force a h between the un to his head

Irrational anger surged through me

“What are you doing here?” I snarled

But in the next second, Lynn had thehi ball

I threw my arms around her and squeezed her so hard that it was likely I was causing her pain

I didn’t stop, though, and she didn’t ask me to

“I came because Marsala said the safe word,” she whispered “Her location said she was here” She looked over at the baby doll that we’d used as a stand-in, and she shuddered “I have a feeling Marsala was bad?”

I laughed “You have no idea She gave her location ahich I knew she would do—and we transferred the babies via Medivac to a new safe house about eight hours ago You weren’t supposed to leave”

Henley narrowed her eyes “You could’ve solved all of this by tellingon”