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"Of course he does Who do you think put up your bail? You know anybody else with a million dollars? He wouldn’t turn his back on you when you need hih you ran out on him when he needed you First Jamaica, then you"

"Lighten up on in’ around that burden for the last ten years"

"I’o there I just—"

"It’s okay, Wanda"

"What happened, Nick?" Wanda asked as soon as we got in the house

"ThereI ot to

"What is it?" Wanda sat across from me

"I don’t know"

"Start at the beginning, Nick Don’t leave anything out Even if you didn’t think it was important at the time"

"It started when Mrs Gabrielle Childers sat down in front of an teeks before when Uncle Felix called and said he had a job that required our talents ‘A simple job,’ he called it, and it was

"You see, Wanda, until about a year ago, I’d been a part of a special operations unit Things rong on our last assignot out alive Jett Bronson, Monika Wynn, and , where ere promptly debriefed and processed out Uncle Felix approached us the day after He recruited us to do jobs for him that required our skills Jett’s specialty is electronic surveillance, coh tech stuff Monika’s specialty is s blow up Me, my specialty is weapons, commando tactics"

"Commando tactics?"

"You know, Wanda, the killer"

Wanda smiled "Oh Go on, Nick"