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“I guess I assumed it already was,” I replied. “Especially being not only Army butrangerstoo. I just figured there’d be a little more dialogue, more discussion.”
“We’re not just rangers,” said Liam. “We’re mercenaries, too.”
I knew the term, but only from books and movies. I didn’t realize it was real life stuff. It seemed a little too detached from real life.
“Like, people hire you? Or…”
“Exactly like that, yes.”
I thought back to what I’d seen so far, and what kinds of things they talked about when they thought I wasn’t listening. I didn’t know everything, but I had some idea of what the place they called ‘the Shop’ was all about. As well as one other thing:
“Julius isn’t active duty, is he?” I asked. “Not anymore, anyway.”
Liam froze in the middle of slinging the towel back over his shoulder. When he looked at me again, he seemed almost impressed.
“No,” he answered slowly, “he’s not.” He tilted his head. “How did you know that?”
“Hey, I live with the three of you, remember? I can’t help it if I pick up stuff.”
If his face had gone serious, it was only for a moment. The next time I looked at him, he was all smiles.
“Forget all that for now,” he said. “Tonight, none of us are working. The three of us have the night off.”
“Oh yeah?” I chuckled. “And what are we going to do with our night off?”
“Stick around,” Liam said, in a very terrible impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger. “And find out.”
