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Oh, my God

“But, Nikki… That doesn’t wipe out what you had with Conner Aht?”

“I—” She couldn’t speak Couldn’t think

Hell… She ain

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She stared at Dah he’d just spoken to her in Slovakian, which she’d already told hih…that was neither here nor there at present

He’d just delivered the ultimate blow to her—and the piece of this puzzle that had been eating at his soul like a piranha all this time

He propped his hands on his hips as she held the laptop in her palh a litany of sords or some other rant of epic proportions he was certain she was desperate to unleash on him

He re No one will hear you when you unload on me”

Tears filled her eyes

That shredded him even more

“Nikki,” he quietly said “I didn’t have a choice”

“But you kneas a risk,” she countered, nota beat “All this time, you suspected it was…more likely than not that all of my files would be erased”

“I can’t say for sure,” he asserted, and now raised his hands in the air, in surrender “I didn’t know the tracking device would work in reverse, pinpointing your computer once the download was completed I do believe that with the machine off, it’s effectively deactivated The lack of an alarood indication”

“That’s one of the reasons you think we’re safe here? They aren’t tracking the device at the moment?”