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“MI6?” Margo made the statement sound like a question.
“Holy fuck.”
“Right? I know, totally bananas that they’d even bother with me.”
“What did you steal?”
“Why do you ask?” Margo countered.
“There’s no way MI6 is chasing a petty thief.”
“I wouldn’t call my workpetty,” Margo mumbled, sipping her coffee.
“What did youdo?” Brick growled, leaning in.
Margo huffed a breath, “I may or may not have attempted the British Museum.”
“Please tell me you’re joking.”
“Well, they stole it all anyway,” Margo justified.
“The British Museum isn’t some fat, old country squire who’s missing a few antiques from a bedroom he hasn’t seen in decades. It’s the fucking government.”
Plates settling in front of them broke the tension.
“Anything else?” the waitress asked.
At Brick’s glare, she got busy refilling coffees at another table.
“At least be nice to the girl,” Margo whispered. “You’ve obviously slept with her, and she apparently had expectations.”
“I didn’t sleep with her,” Brick corrected, diving into the shrimp and grits. “I fucked her. After her shift, in the dark, on table nine,” he said, nodding toward the other side of the room.
“Well, obviously bringing another woman here is breaking the post-shift code of coitus,” Margo observed tucking into her crab cakes.
Brick just looked at her. “Don’t think you’re going to distract me with humor.”
“Didn’t work?” Margo asked.
“No.”
“Bollocks,” she said, slumping in her chair. But she perked right up. “They didn’t catch me.”
“No, they just have a net closing around you tight enough that you fled the country.”
“Fair point,” Margo said on another bite.
“Why’d you tell me and not Talon?”
Brick watched Margo chew her lip before she spoke and wondered what it would be like to sink his own teeth into the ripe flesh there. If she’d taste sweet like fruit, or tangy like an exotic spice.
“I arrived on your doorstep in a box,” Margo reflected.
“I know. I’m still recovering.”
Margo ignored him and kept going, “Honestly, I wasn’t sure I’d make it.”
“You thought you’d die in there? And you still did it?”
