Chapter EighteenThis is a robbery?
I’m so confused I momentarily forget to be scared.
Why would this orc decide to mug me? Do they even use dollars on the world he’s secretly from? Isn’t Chester—or whoever—paying him to kill me? Maybe the pay isn’t so good?
Or is he saying this because of Maya’s presence? Maybe he would’ve just killed me, but because of a witness, he’s trying to make my murder look like a mugging gone wrong. Perhaps whoever hired these orcs to kill me told them to make my death look like an accident—hence the whole pushing me into the harbor (though the rescue doesn’t add up), throwing a brick at my head, trying to ram a car into me…
If this theory is true, I have to make sure this mugging goes as smoothly as muggings can go and—
“I said, ‘Give me your money,’” he sna
