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“God.” I covered my face with my hands. “You’d think I’d’ve learned to stay away from the Saxons by now.”
“I dunno. You talk about assassins coming after you like it’s a day at a beach when the sun’s too hot.”
“I have to,” I said, looking out my window. “If I allow it to compute, I’m a goner. All I wanted to do was find something I was good at, and that turned out to be poker. And in finding the game, I found Theo. I can’t escape him.” I paused.
“Are we talking about the Sax of two years ago, or now?” Kai asked as he made a right turn.
“I…”
“Fuck.”
I glanced at him. “What?”
“Well,” he said on a sigh, “You’re talking about humanity putting a wrench in our plans, but I don’t think you’ve considered your own.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You’re back in love with Sax, Scarlet.” Kai braked at a stoplight and turned to me with the flattest expression I’d ever seen on his usually vivacious face. “If you ever fell out of it. And you’ve just made this a hell of a lot more complicated.”
