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It’s not my normal disposition to flirt,” Felix said honestly. “All of my previous girlfriends asked me out first.”
“No. I love you. I love you so much it hurts. I want to kill Andrea… I want to turn her skull inside out. I want to kill Lily in her sleep. I’ve stalked them both. I watch them. I know their patterns. I could kill them both so easily. They shouldn’t touch you. I should touch you. Not them. Not them.
Predictably, a number of them said kung fu.”
Silence and steady eye contact could crack even the most obstinate of people.
She reached down and dragged her fingers through the blood on the mat. The blood he’d spit up. With shivering fingers she wiped it across the bridge of her nose and down her cheek. Then she licked her fingertips and quivered from head to toe.
The classic problem with a single vote system—it always comes down to two parties,” Felix said. Looking to his hands on the table he tapped the wood a few times.
Two Favors Owed. Someone or something was listening. And I struck a deal with it.
“You’d force my hand then?” came a voice from nowhere and everywhere. It was masculine, and human sounding. There was an immense pressure in Felix’s head suddenly.
“The single defining character trait that you have, that makes you so different from Skipper, is you genuinely care about your people. It shows,”
“Ok, so if one year is that high in cost, but the year after isn’t, that means that something happens this year that is incredibly monumental,” Eva said, crossing her arms over her chest and nodding her head. “Or apocalyptic,” Felix countered.
“That was a bit cold, darling,” Adriana said after Eva got further away. “And the world is cold. If you hadn’t noticed, we’re probably going to die down here.”
His psychotic, devoted, maniacal, deeply disturbed assassin was coming for him.
Soft headed morality was the shortest and quickest route to getting yourself killed, hurt, or taken advantage of.
“You’re smart, Felix. Sometimes too smart. If I didn’t tell you exactly what I don’t want you to do, you’d think a way around it.”
