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"So what did he do? To deserve an assassination by you?"

"I have no clue, it was just an order"

"But you failed So…"

"I thought he was dead," I growl at her "I didn’t fail Sohs, and thenof rateful I’ the past two years

"So how come you haven’t killed Merc?" Sasha, that little faker, asks from the back

"Why would I kill Merc?"

"You killed all the rest So how come not Merc?"

I scowl at her in the rear view

"You killed all the other what?" Harper asks now

Fuck

"Assassins" Sasha again "He’s supposed to be the only one left besides Merc So I’uy He’s not a good guy He’s not a Couy either He’s nasty and mean and since I knew all those other assassins you took out, even if it was just casually, I just don’t get it"

I say nothing Because this is yet another puzzle piece that requires so How the fk does this kid know sofor the sa the impression that’s the case In fact, allinto question at the moment Who do I trust? Whose plan is this?

"There’s more, you know," Sasha continues in the wake of h out the words in an atten amusement

"More assassins More than you know of Lots more"

I am not amused "I don’t want to talk about it, OK? Just a couple s Until then, shut the fk up"

"James," Harper says in a cal on"

"The S on, why not ask her"

"He’s crazy," Sasha says as Harper turns back to her "They’re all crazy You had to have seen theht? Even if it was just briefly, you had to have seen them It’s not easy to miss the fact that you have to be psychotic to do a job like this"