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I still can’t see his face

The flashlight lowers

A girl stands next to hireen eyes, and is wearing a short black dress with boots and a long tan trench coat “Sim”

“That’s me” I smile “How are you, Del?”

I feel Junior and Ash tense and then start to yell all at once I alh Of course, they know her because Maksim dated her or used her for information, and sometimes it wasn’t him She tells me all the time she will never love me, and I don’t remember much except she likes to talk—a lot and it’s because of her that I was able to kill her dad

See? Really good at trades

Though she says I tend to treat her like shit sometimes, not like I can help it I don’t love her

“Jenna?” Serena repeats “Are you fucking kidding me?”

“Del” She winks “Actually, but it’s been fun, trust me…”

“Not doing too bad” Del looks at the guy next to her; I recognize him as her uncle He’s bad news and would have killed his brother himself had I not beat him to it

I nod to Del “You eat today?”

She shrugs “Hell, I ate fifteen times today, cover blown and all that”

“Fifteen?” Serena repeats in confusion and what appears to be coe

“She has a hearty appetite,” I explain

Junior snorts out a laugh “That’s worse than King Maybe they’re a match made in heaven in this completely fucked up situation What the hell,next time”

I see her flinch She doesn’t want this She has no choice

Peace has been made between the families

But everyone deserves a choice

“Fifteen…” I repeat, “Damn Fred,” I jerk my chin toward her uncle “Did you starve her?”

“Probably should have” His guard is down “Co’s here, but he’s… well he ran into someone’s fist”

“Or sorumbles

We all enter

Lights flicker on

It’s in a shit ton of disarray, and as expected, exactly fifteenin his reen eyes flash toward ?

I wave

Ash groans into his hands

“So, what brings you here?” Fred asks while Dela knife behind her back

Good girl