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“Yes?”
“You don’t touch your gun unless I tell you to.”
“Whatever you say, boss.”
“I mean it. And don’t call me boss.”
“Whatever you say.”
“Let me speak to Candy for a minute.”
“Don’t worry. She hasn’t told me anything about the White Lights.”
“At least one of you understands orders.”
“I understand them. I just don’t like them.”
“I’ll see you in the morning.”
“Wait, don’t you want to talk to Candy?”
“No. I just wanted to know if you’d been trying to get information out of her. Now I know.”
“All roads leads to Tamerlan and they’re going to detour through the White Lights.”
“Good night, Stark.”
“Good night, boss.”
“Stark.”
“Sorry.”
THE ALARM ON my phone goes off at eight the next morning. I shake Candy and she kicks me with her heel.
“Go away,” she says.
“Rise and shine, Miss Marple.”
She sits up and blinks.
“Fuck. Julie is great, but this early-bird thing is for the birds.”
“I’ll put on some coffee.”
She drops back down onto the bed.
“I’ll just lie here and make sure the blankets don’t run away.”
“If you say so, but you won’t be teacher’s pet anymore if you make us late.”
She sits up and throws a pillow at me.
“I don’t like you when you don’t drink. Without a hangover, you’re too chipper in the morning.”
“You think I like it? I feel like Andy Hardy.”
“Come back to bed. We’ll tell Julie we were captured by pirates.”
