‘You already have it,’ he said at last. ‘I have no privacy left. You all now finally know who I am. You can expose me to my relatives, my business colleagues whenever you want.’
Parnell shook his head. ‘We all know who each other is and after all this time together, shared our own secrets pretty much on where we’ve all come from, so that’s nothing unusual. What we need is a check and balance. You have her.’ He pointed at me.
Lawrence’s back stiffened even more. Again, not so the others noticed, but I did. ‘What are you saying?’
‘Just this. You know how fictitious superheroes all have one flaw, a weakness that keeps them from taking over the world? That slave whose leash you’ve got a death grip on is yours. You want judgment power over us, then give up your power over her.’
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