Stupid Bryce was still acting weird, and he never had answered her question about where he'd disappeared to for two days after Samson had called him to his office out of her meeting. Neither one of them had whispered a peep about what all that was about. The common line was 'Guardsman business' but that was such a heaping pile of organically produced fertilizer and top soil that she wanted to strangle both of them. But it would be more fun to pull it out of them without their knowing later, to just slip something into conversation and catch them when they tripped over their own stupid tongues and spilled the secret. They were just stupid boys so she knew she could get them to bumble into her snare. Ripping their secret out of their lips that way would be so much more fun.
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