"Oh my God," Delilah laughed. "You wove Harry Potter into a life and death conversation and it made sense. I am probably going to die, but I'll die knowing I have lived."
"Not you too?" Maddox glared at Delilah. Rachel just shook her head. We exited the car, settled ourselves out. Rachel took point, Delilah took one flank while Pamela took the other.
By happenstance, I ended up in the middle...yeah right, with Virginia covering my back.
"You stay here," Pamela put a hand on Rachel's shoulder. "You'll need to lead the team in if someone 'pumps up the volume'." Interesting euphemism for 'when people start killing people'.
"What are we doing today?" Miyako 'appeared'. She'd been walking down the sidewalk toward us – the Kazak Consulate was a townhouse – but her presence hadn't registered.
