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“Aren’t you taking ht you were Northern Territory Enforcement”

“Do I look like a fucking cop?”

No He looked like someone who’d seen the inside of a cell and liked what he’d found there

“If you aren’t with Enforcement, who sent you?”

“What do you care? You’re alive, ain’t ya”

“For how long?”

“Don’t care I get paid to deliver you What happens after ain’t none of my concern”

“Quit talking to her” The guy in the passenger seat turned around to glare at them His eyes were dead, and the corner of his e with the merchandise”

The guy with the gun grunted

“And you—” the scarred e away frohed as he turned back around in his seat

They were amused by her helplessness She let her eyes drop to the floor Striker would have knocked his teeth out for that laugh But then, by noould probably have killed everyone in the car and freed hiler There was no extensive coround No special powers in her ht as she remembered his shout when she was taken His promise that he would come for her She trusted hi enough for hiet to her Maybe, just maybe, her life wouldn’t end after all

Not yet, anyway

A ht her attention She studied the shadows Soht, and her heart almost stopped dead

Striker’s rattler had followed her

Her gaze flew to the er beneath hi else She glanced back down at the snake, her pal If her captor saw the snake, he’d shoot it Her stomach lurched What happened to the man if the snake died? She didn’t know, but feared the worst How could they possibly live independently of each other now that they were fused together?