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“Try being honest with her then” Brilared back at Del-Rey He was possibly the only et aith it “You should have been honest with her fro”
“Oh yeah, I should have told a sixteen-year-old virgin I intended to fuck the hell out of her after she grew up, and that I was going to shoot her father and cousins for the hell of it because they allowed her to endanger herself Noouldn’t that have just inspired confidence in et her and those Breeds she protected out of that underground facility, wouldn’t we, Brim?”
This argument had played out for nearly seven years now For some reason Brim had all but adopted Anya since the moment he saw her There was no lust, there was concern And Brim rarely concerned hiether since they were kids They had been created in the same labs and plotted to escape them since they first understood they were prisoners and expected to kill
Five, Del-Rey realized Brian planning Brim had been fifteen and he twenty, and both were hardened killers, before they’d o, and until Anya, Brim had never questioned Del-Rey’s plots and schemes
“You should have warned her before you shot her father about what you had to do” Brim repeated his years-old refrain “All you had to do was tell her that if you didn’t do it, it would endanger their lives She would have understood that You didn’t have to shell-shock her”
“Well fuck, let’s just get our little tio back and fix it,” Del-Rey sneered
Bririmaced
“Where the fuck is my mate, Lieutenant?”
Brie She just went to sleep less than an hour ago, Del-Rey She’s worried herself sick about you while you were out there She already looks like she hasn’t slept in months Leave her the hell alone for a while”
That was it
Del-Rey’s hand snapped out, wrapped around Brih pressure to assure the other man he was dead serious now
Briaze flickered
“We haven’t fought since you were fifteen years old and you decided you could take ain?”
Brihed “I swore loyalty to you I won’t go back on it”
Del-Rey’s gripped slackened “Don’t get between me and Anya, Brim I se returned I’d deal more fairly with her Accept that, and let’s put this behind us”