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His jaw clenched and unclenched “You were supposed to wait downstairs”

“And you weren’t supposed to have sex with the target,” the guy without the eyepatch drawled

The wohed, but it sounded suspiciously like she’d said “dumbass”

Keiko couldn’t have agreed more “You’re a bastard”

His lips thinned “Yeah But I’ blackmailed”

“I’lared at him

“Tell her e need and why,” Mace told Eyepatch “Give her a chance to choose to help us first, before you strong-arm her into it”

Keiko didn’t care about their arguments or what they wanted She’d reached her liht with her dreauns, and her Viking had turned out to be a lying weasel

“Save it,” she announced and turned for the door “I don’t care what you want There’s no way I’d help any of you now I’ You can work this out without me”

“Damn it, Keiko, help me out here,” Mace barked

“I’ll get right on that,” Keiko called to him as she strode toward the door

“I can’t let you leave,” Eyepatch said,for the man with the cold eyes to block her path

She felt like her head was going to explode “I thought you said you wouldn’t hurta lie?

“Seriously, Keiko?” Mace said with exasperation “You believed a guy who’s holding a gun on you?”

“I believed you, too,” she reht”