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“What are you doing?” she asked

I stopped, turning to her “No bullshit?”

She raised an eyebrow, but nodded “No bullshit”

“I grabbed hiun”

Her head reared back “When’d you have this conversation?”

“Just now”

“Oh”

I did not want to do this Not one bit “Look,” I began

She focused back on me

“I jaet any calls out We have a few hours before their guys start wondering where their bosses are The dealer will have a concussion, and he should be out for a while, too I told Jake to make sure”

Her mouth flattened “I know I saw”

I could tell she hadn’t liked that

Tough shit

“That was one side of our targets I have five more men to take care of, and we need to do it fast They can’t knoe’re coot me?”

A sharedher oords

A light flared in her eyes, but she stifled it right away Her head ot it”

“I don’t want to take you withyou and Jake here, so what you do is up to you You can let Jake kill him, you can kill hio This is important, Ash”

Her head jerked back up, and her chin tightened “I know Just because I don’t enjoy the killing doesn’t ritted her teeth as she spoke

Fuck I wanted to take her in my arms, take back all the bad shit I’d done, all the bad shit she’d been a part of, all the badin her life That would mean a different life, a different Ash, but fuck She didn’t deserve this life

She didn’t deserve to taste death all around her

But I couldn’t do any of that, so I had to gritwith her and push forward We had another job to handle, and then I needed to start thinking about ould come after

“You think heabout my sister?” she asked

I studied her a beat Her words were soft, contemplative

“He ain, stall for ti away about her He’s a conman”

“I know”

Jake and Cavers came back, fully reclothed, and cleaned up