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"That's Old Nu whiskey," he said and nodded to his glass "Drink it down You'll need it after your "

I took a sip and sighed as the whiskey burned down my throat

"Sorry to keep you waiting," he said finally "We wanted to check out the security video feed we recovered from the bank and from a store across the street first to verify your actions relating to the robbery You can understand"

I shrugged, knowing exactly what he round, they wanted to see whether I was part of the heist or had truly tried to stop it

"TellFroent Gladwell here wants to talk to you about the FBI's case against the Romanov family, e think was involved in the robbery I want to hear what you have to say first You should know that we already have the video feed from the cameras and were able to ID you from our database"

I leaned back in , fro that I’d decided to use my skills as a former special operator to disrupt the robbery

They listened without comment

"You called in the hit and stopped it," Barlow said, slass when he took a sip "But we don't want it to get out who you are"

"I understand Neither do I"

"Why did you do it?"

"Because I could," I said "It's very simple I have skills I used them That’s really all there is to it"

Gladwell nodded "The suspects we have in custody are low-level grunts in the Romanov empire You should know that if the Romanov faotten your family in whole lot of trouble with the There s the way they were"

"Warning received and acknowledged"

“What you did was heroic but stupid If they figure out it was you, they'll now be on you and your family"

"Too late at this point," I said and downed the rest of the whiskey "I did what I was trained to do—respond They could have killed people"