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“Damn, he's rigid as a stake,” Miller said.
Smoke locked up. His eyes didn't even blink.
In a way, it was a relief not to have to talk to him anymore.
Margot looked at the code and tried to make sense of it. Miller peered over her shoulder.
“I certainly have never seen anything like this, Ryan,” she said. She pinched some of the code and zoomed in.
He'd never worked with her before, but she was pleasant. Not bad to look at, either. Not like the other engineers, who were usually guys, geeks, and weirdoes who spoke as if they were raised by circuits. Nothing they ever said made any damned sense. Those weren't the kind of guys you wanted to gallivant in front of a cold-blooded criminal. Margot had a light air about her, an innocence. Miller wondered if she'd ever seen a dead body in p
