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“You’re a reht woman, lieutenant Still, you make remarkably foolish mistakes Loyalty isn’t an issue here I’d like you to remove your jacket”

She kept her moves slow, her eyes on his When the jacket was off one shoulder, she engaged the recorder in its pocket “If holding unpoint isn’t due to loyalty to Senator DeBlass, Rockman, what is it?”

“It’s a reat pleasure I’d hoped for the opportunity to kill you, lieutenant, but didn’t see clearly hoork it into the plan”

“What plan is that?”

“Why don’t you sit down? The side of the bed Take off your shoes and we’ll chat”

“My shoes?”

“Yes, please This gives me my first, and I’ed to accomplish Your shoes?”

She sat, choosing the side of the bed nearest her ’link “You’ve been working with DeBlass through it all, haven’t you?”

“You want to ruin him He could have been president, and eventually the Chair of the World Federation of Nations The tide’s swinging, and he could have swept it along and sat in the Oval Office Beyond”

“With you at his side”

“Of course And with me at his side, ould have taken the country, then the world, in a new direction The right direction One of strongdefense”

She took her ti the other “Defense—like your old pals in SafeNet?”

His sht “This country has been run by diplootiate rather than coed that But you were deter him down, and me with him There’s no chance for the presidency now”

“He’s a murderer, a child abuser—”

“A states him to trial”