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“I wasn’t trying to hurt you”

“Oh, please You don’t give a shit about anyone except yourself and that doppelgänger of Satan you work for If I needed any ave it to me When I threatened to expose the fact that he deceived his client and sold us to the ene quiet so you and I could have this touching aze rakes me up and down

I’ for the sheet to cover myself

“Until then, I believed you You said all the right things” She scoffs “I really believed you cared what happened to Reservoir”

I won’t lie to her and say that I do “No, but I care about you”

“Stop That tripe won’t work on me anymore What I want to know is how you convinced Jeremy to betray us Did you coerce him, despite the fact you’re supposedly his friend? Or did you just pay hilare “You’re underhanded enough for either”

Oh, she’s pissed And if I don’t do so to hate nant by his older brother, and he found out They were engaged at the tiht him in a vulnerable moment”

“And you took advantage of him That sounds like you”

I sit up and try to cross the room to her—but I’m stopped short by the cuff I huff in frustration “I’ job”

“To get dirty so that Evan Cook doesn’t have to?”

Affiret to the botto to fuck you out of anything but the Wyna to help you because you’re a skipper captaining a sinking ship Bless you for trying I adrit I mean that I don’t know many people with your backbone But you dissected that annual report for yourself You sahere theand what that will lead to You wouldn’t even have known if I hadn’t pointed that out”

“Don’t pat yourself on the back I had been pushing to get that report for weeks You called ive me a supposed heads-up a day before I would have dived into it otten to the bottom of it without you”

She has a point, but… “Shane is on to you and the VPs are all coer—”

“No But apparently h school drama skills aren’t as rusty as I feared”

It was all an act?