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Peaks leaned into her, to an intimate distance, an uncomfortable distance that conveyed just the hint of threat “We need one of you, preferably you But if you refuse, our next stop is Saree to help us”
“Hey, Saht, so leave them the hell out of this Leave thehed “Ah So it’s like that” She shook her head, realizing she was trapped “You have any idea how many times that boy, that man, saved my life?”
“Many ti an almost compassionate tone “I’ve read all the published stories, Ms Talent, and many unpublished statements So I knoell that you saved hiht arerous”
Then Green spoke up, sounding disapproving “You’re a lesbian, and black, and yet you’re inevitably referred to as the ‘strong right arrate on your nerves? Aren’t we supposed to be past that—”
Dekka let go a snort and sat all the way back in her seat, willing herself to re with suppressed anger “He’s not a whiteTemple You can read all the accounts you want, but you don’t knohat he did, and how” Tears threatened to well again Dekka stabbed a finger at Green “Every single personevery single onewho came out of that hellhole alive is alive because of hiht arm? You can chisel those words on my tombstone, lady, and I’ll be a proud and happy corpse”
“We’d rather have you,” Peaks said, and took Green’s phone and held it out for Dekka The doculowed up at her “Press your thumb on the button”
Dekka did it, because if she didn’t, Sam would He would of course be furious if he found out she was protecting hiht a small smile to Dekka’s lips Sae and work and lives and hopefully, so little baby that they’d nairl
That was Dekka’s fantasy for them, anyway
“A back to work tomorrow?” she asked
Tom Peaks shook his head
Dekka unclipped the na with her cover name—Jean, her middle na out to clatter on the blacktop
“Wherever you’re taking et there, too, and without a scratch Oh, and fill the tank”
ASO-2
ANOMALOUS SPACE OBJECT–2 struck planet Earth after itsprecisely where it was expected to land—in a section of the North Sea just off the coast of Scotland that had been surrounded by NATO ships—American, British, and Dutch Below the water one British and one US sub the perimeter around a French deep-sea exploration submersible Ships from the Russian navy and the Chinese navy looked on from a barely discreet distance, their surveillance equiple
But the meteorite played a trick on all of theet zoneat about ninety thousandsidearm toward a pond, it skipped