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“Dealt with him? You make it sound like you’re going to kill him.”
“It’s him that set this job up. I’ve confirmed it. Willing to give me ten percent of the empire for taking you out and getting into your father’s safe deposit box.”
“You’re serious?”
“I’ve got a plan.”
“To kill him?”
“You got any other options?”
“There has to be another way.”
He nudges the corpse with his foot. “You think there was another way with him? Think I could have talked him out of shooting you?”
A car appears on the horizon. Jack grabs me by the arm. “Come on, before we get spotted.”
We climb into his car and he races off, the engine a lot more powerful than I expected. Within seconds, the van’s out of sight. “Some people deserve to die,” he says as he puts the miles between us and the crime scene.
“I bet my uncle said the same thing when arranging the hit on me.”
“I’m not the same as him.”
“You sure about that? Killing those who get in your way. Sounds a lot like him.”
“I only take out those who deserve it.”
“That doesn’t exactly make you an angel, Jack.”
He says nothing in response. “Where are we going?” I ask a moment later.
“To pick up Sophie.”
“What? Why?”
“You’ve been compromised. I need to get both of you somewhere safe while I resolve this.”
“You mean while you kill my uncle?”
“If he was standing here right now with a gun pointing at you, what would you do? If you had a gun too, would you let him shoot you or would you shoot him?”
“That’s not a fair question.”
“That’s what life is, Clarissa. It’s unfair. It’s cruel and you do what you have to in order to survive to fight another day. He’s got a gun, and he’s pointing it at you. You’ve got a chance to take him out first and you’re hesitating. In my line of work, hesitating gets you killed.”
“So I get no say in this?”
“If he lives, you die. It’s that simple. Which would you prefer?”
“I don’t want anyone to die. I just want to go back to my life.”
“And you will once this is done, but we don’t have a lot of time. I’ve got to take your key and your fingerprint back with me by tomorrow morning.”
“My what?”
“To get into the vault, you need a key and a fingerprint. I need your fingerprint to take back with me.”
“And how do you intend to do that?”
