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“That’ll be staying here,” came a deep voice from behind “As will you”

Pitt looked over his shoulder to find Richards entering the room, a pistol extended in his hands in front of him

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Pitt slowly turned toward the doorway, holding the binder in front of hirip on his weapon

“Don’t you have some water leaks to attend to?” Pitt asked

“I’ll stuff them with your dead body,” Richards said “Put the book down and come with me I don’t care to dirty our conference room”

That was all Pitt needed to hear Richards had not seen the coreen binder But he was in no position to aim and fire Not yet

Pitt took a step forward, better aligning hi details in this book,” Pitt said “Enough to put you and your boss away for quite some time”

“I’ll tell you just once more Put the book down”

“Here, you take it” Pitt extended the binder in front of him with his left hand, despite the distance across the rooht hand and fired two shots through the cover

Both nine- him backward He squeezed off two of his own shots as he collapsed, firing into the ceiling Falling against the conference roolazed in a vacant stare as Pitt stepped over him

“Next time, shoot first and talk later,” Pitt said

Figuring that the other guards were occupied in the production room, Pitt turned down the hallway toward the entrance He passed ave a wide berth to the reen binder and a pistol

The front guard desk was empty as Pitt stepped passed it and out theacross the sky, revealing a gray mist over the loch The landscape was still and quiet, save for the sound of a motorboat somewhere on the lake

Pitt followed a stone ay that es toward the waterfront As the dock came into view, he detectedacross the grounds fro, his foot in more pain than he’d let on They ell ahead of Pitt as they stepped onto the dock