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Keiko lifted an eyebrow at him

“Whatever,” he said “Help et her tied up We’ll dump her in a bathroom and leave her for Enforcement”

The still-spasly as she looked at Mace “Totally…kicked…your…ass,” she said, forcing each word out

Keiko glanced up at hiain?”

He just groaned

Chapter Eighteen

CommTECH headquarters

New York City, Northern Territory

“I a your demands” Miriam Shepherd sat behind her desk, her hands clasped in front of her, as she talked with the leader of the Freedoe, and was threatening her profit Oh, what she would have given to be able to reach over the desk and wring Susan Neal’s scrawny neck

The terrorist toyed with the detonator in her hand “You’ve had your hour”

Miria smile “As you know, a decision to hold an election can only be hout the world Some are out of contact I needin order to hold a vote There hasn’t been a general election in this territory in over sixty years You can’t expect decisions like this to happen within your timeframe”

It was clear that Susan didn’t buy a word Miria up on the Freedom leader, she never expected she would Up until a year earlier, Susan Neal had headed up a group of hout the coalition countries She was known for her hard attitude and her cold heart In any other situation, Miriaht now, all she wanted was for the Freedo all sorts of public-relations nightmares for CommTECH

Which hy Miria up a plan to deal with the fallout froe If the Freedom leader planned to murder one o

f CommTECH’s scientists live on the news, they needed to respond as soon as it happened Death of an employee, especially one livestreae

“Miriam, Miriaet this done in the tiiven you You just have to want to do it Maybe you need stronger motivation, h back over her shoulder “You ht want to turn on your newsfeed”