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“As we’ve established, I don’t re Adams” Lie Bald-faced lie “But from what I know about him, he’s a dick and probably deserved a bullet”

“How’d you knoas a bullet?” Bellamy asked

“Gee, I don’t know, because it’s really hard to kill a man with your bare hands when you’re my size” Not impossible, ing

“Where’d you get the gun?”

To that, I shrugged

“How did you get past security?”

“I don’t know, Bella true because I really didn’t know Clearly, I’d worked out the kinks in inal plan, but the blank spots in ht they would be

“Do you sneak onto someone’s private property often?”

“What’s often?” I asked

“Okay How about… do you shoot people often?”

“Can’t say that I do,” I said, shrugging I didn’t always shoot “Have you ever shot someone?”

“Yes”

“Because you had orders, or because you wanted to?”

“Yes”

“Okaaaay,” I said, sliding toward the other side of the booth, pushing his legs out of my way “Trapped on an over-water villa with a killer who likes to use drugs to incapacitate people That’s great Just lovely”

“You asked, love,” Bella me

“I guess I didn’t expect that you’re some psycho killer, Bellamy,” I shot back

“Oh, corab my wrist

And, well, let’s just say my instincts kicked in

I whirled around and swung, using the heel of my hand to strike

But I never got to make contact

Because in a rabbed my arm, turned it, and twisted until my entire body had no choice but to spin, but to collide with his chest

That was a very calm, very practiced move

Martial arts training, maybe?

It was definitely rehearsed like that

But it didn’t quite fit in with the super upper-crust i horseback riding and golf lessons, not martial arts?

Maybe it was just a type of workout he did That would explain why he was in such good shape