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“I want you to help King”

A hearty chuckle erupted on the other end of the line “Help hi to ?”

“No But I’ to ask you to hear me out—just like you asked me to do”

“Why should I listen? What’s in it for me, little treasure?”

He wanted to ive except, well, infor to rewrite history, one without Ten Club?” He would care about that, right? Like the otherpowers, money, and skills because of them They all traded

“Then I’d say where do you want to meet?”

CHAPTER TWELVE

Ansin

My little treasure is asking me for a favor? I chuckled, amused by this unforeseen twist Hilarious I was no hero I was as coldhearted and cruel as they came Why deny what I was? I was not here to please anyone but uedthe da First I saved her from Victor, and now this

Yes, yes It will be fun

I’d lived for over two thousand years, and while I had iet tedious, redundant Maybe this was just the distraction I needed A little battery recharge, if you will At arequire my assistance?

What happened, ht into the arms of a venomous snake out to bite you?

Just before ten pm, I pulled up on my Harley to the run-down café three hours south of Tallahassee I’d been onforthings notitems on a moment’s notice

My boat was a twenty-year-old steel trawler, coed faces, scarred hands, the smell of the ocean permanently infused in their skin They looked authentic because they were authentic In their rouper, but really, they slept, ate, maintained the boat, and lived in a fantasy world I had created just for them