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“The cost of survival is doing things you don’t like,” he said coldly. “Suck it up or give up, but don’t sit on the fence and complain. It does nothing but waste time. Now are you going to bail, or are we going to the morgue?”
“My dad’s an ass, but he’s an ass of his word. He has a very high opinion of his honor, so if you can get him to make one, he always keeps his promises. That’s why he usually only makes deals that are grossly in his favor, but I got him. It took me years to set it up, but I played him for a fool.
The look Nik gave me then was absolutely scalding, but I didn’t regret a thing. No matter how serious the situation, a good pun is never a waste.
And when I dreamed, I dreamed of the brief, happy time when I’d been young enough to confuse presents with love and my father had been my world.
