“You people are unbelievable,” I said at last. “First Lucella tells me she’s going to kill me if I get too close to Byron. Then Byron tries to recruit me after seeing me with Lucella. Then Mark tries to beat the crap out of me for talking to Byron. Then Byron chews out Mark for messing up his pitch to me. Then Mark calls you in to stop me from saying yes to Byron, because Byron’s forbidden Mark to come close to me, which is only a problem because Mark was trying to attack me, which only happened because Byron wants to replace him.” I looked at Vermillion. “Did I get that right? Because there
...more
