Zero should have known she was lying the instant she proposed they go their separate ways, but he must have thought that their bump in the sack had earned him some brownie points. Not so. Well, not in the way he must have thought it would, at least.
Yes, she wanted to keep him alive, and yes, she wanted to prolong the pleasure of working together for as long as she needed them to, but his insistence on taking the high road was too much of a hassle to deal with. It was better that she take care of certain things alone. And since he was now occupied, she was free to operate the machinery as she pleased.
"You got all that?" she asked with the phone pressed between her cheek and shoulder. She jangled the keys to the car in her fingers before sticking the right one in the ignition. It was br
