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“Leave my wife alone!” Eddie shouted.
The man in white laughed.
“This is what happens when you try to be a hero, Eddie,” he said.
“What do you want?” Eddie asked. “Money? Revenge? Or—”
The man in white shushed him long and loud.
“I’m the one who will be asking questions.”
One of the henchmen cleared his throat.
“Sir, we’re running out of time.”
“We’re in need of a ship,” the man in white said.
“If it’s a ship you want,” Delfino said, “we have another garbage ship. You want it, it’s yours.”
“Thank you, my good man,” the man in white said. “But here’s the thing: you don’t have to offer it. I was going to take it anyway.” He glanced at Eddie. “But what I really want is the pendant. Where is it?”
“Pendant?” Eddie asked.
“The dead body had a pendant. A golden pendant. What did y
