Kenya, why don’t you calm down and come with me?” Walt mumbles. “I’m not going anywhere with you.” I give the jerk a floppy wave. “I’m here to work, so if you’ll excuse me…” “Freeze.” I go still. Not because the stranger’s command is that powerful—which it kind of is—but because I can’t believe he just said that. Freeze? As if we’re playing cops and robbers and you’re the hero who came to save the day? Is this narcissist for real? Does he think he’s my boss or something? Before I can string all the colorful four-letter words in my mind together and fling them at him like an atomic bomb, the
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