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Caine snorted “You don’t want to know”

“Yes,” Diana insisted, “I do”

“All that matters is I’e

Diana nodded The movement caused her hair to fall forward, to caress her perfect cheek Her eyes glittered moistly But her lush lips still curled into an expression of distaste

“What’s it e’ mean?”

He shrugged “I don’t know I’ve never heard the word before”

Why was he lying to her? Why did it seeerous that she should know that word?

“Go get the”

“Why don’t you take it easy? Make sure you’re really…I was going to say ‘sane,’ but that h”

“I’m back,” Caine reiterated “And I have a plan”

She stared at him, head tilted sideways, skeptical “A plan”

“I have things I have to do,” Caine said, and looked down, incapable, for reasons he couldn’t quite grasp, of aze

“Caine, don’t do this,” Diana said “Sam let you walk away alive He won’t do that a second time”

“You wantout?”

“Yes”