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I laugh.
“Trust me, I don’t mind. But I should warn you: the reason Anton let me do this at all is because he was willing to let go of his need for revenge against you. The one cause for him to act irrationally is gone.”
“As long as he thinks I’m dead,” Ingram counters.
Holy shit. That’s true.
“You’re going to reveal that you’re alive, is that it?” I say.
“Maybe. Right now he thinks he succeeded in killing me, and he’s willing to give up on hurting you. That thirst for our suffering gave him the drive to work his ass off. Sometimes when people get what they want, they lose their edge. It weakens them. If Anton learned I’m still alive, all that hatred would come roaring back. He might rediscover his talent for defeating his enemies.”
“Then what do we do?”
Ingram helps me to my feet as he rises up.
“We’ve taken enough of his pieces off the board,” he says. “It’s time to finish the game.”
