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I underesti, wild, careless, uneducated, unmotivated

Yet she’s shown me several times now that she’s absorbed far ave her credit for She’s astute, observant, persuasive when she wants to be Clever and resourceful She kno to handle a gun— bicep can attest to that And she’s brave as hell The way she staredit was a dick move, but actually pretty smart

She and Sebastian were outmatched If she had handed the watch over, I could conceivably have shot theoadedimpulsively She created chaos, and she split her opponents

Aida can be rash and rageful, but she doesn’t panic Even now on the phone with her brother, though soetting the infor quickly and concisely

“Capisco Si Sarò lì presto”

She hangs up the call, turning to face me

She’s glowing like a bronzed goddess in the watery light coh the shutters She doesn’t notice or care that she’s completely naked

“Dante says somebody torched the equipment on the Oak Street Tower site We’ve lost about two e to the building itself”

“Let’s go down there,” I say, getting out of the bed

“You don’t— I was going to go over, but you don’t have to,” she says

“Do you not wantin the doorway between the bedroom and the bathroom

“No I mean yes, you can, but you don’t” she shifts uncomfortably from foot to foot My little Aida, not e from a direct question on the topic of what she wants

“I’ht?”

“Yes” she says, unconvinced

Then, see to commit to the idea, she follows me into the walk-in, where I’ve put back all of her clothes A job that took me all of five minutes