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“You don’t want to keep me here to torture me?”

Tate shook his head “This rogue military unit has a secret prison in Las Arular Army Apparently, it makes the Black Hole of Calcutta look like a Ritz-Carlton You’re going to be spending the rest of your long and very miserable life with a wonderful selection of fellow inmates”

“But then you won’t be able to lord it over on”

Tate knelt in front of Juan for effect “I’,to sink her It’ll be on video, playing on a loop in your cell I’o down and there’ll be nothing you can do about it I iine th

at’ll be worse than any physical torture I can drea over and over will break you I guarantee it”

Tate stood and took in a deep, refreshing breath “You knohat? I’ht of it all Let’s get him topside”

Juan was unbound and shoved toward the exit Up on deck, they were nize any of them

“Colonel Sánchez,” Tate said to the oldest one, “I present Juan Cabrillo, as we agreed”

Sánchez stepped forward and said to Juan in his native tongue, “You killed my cousin”

“That’s funny,” Juan replied in Spanish with a fluent Argentinian accent “I don’t recall ever enes in the family”

Sánchez sneered at hiet you to Las Armas tomorrow”

Tate held up a finger “One eneric prosthetic leg “You’ll want to replace his fake leg with this one He tends to keep all kinds of surprises inside his own”

“You’ve thought of everything,” Juan said

“That’s htful Good-bye, Juan Maybe I’ll deliver the video to you in person so I can see firsthand what a good ti”