The door had barely shut to give them privacy when Sonia grabbed Drake’s shoulder and spun him round, her face only inches from his.
“Go on then! Do it!” she shouted.
“Do what?” asked Drake after a few seconds of confusion.
He had no idea what she was talking about. Unless… Did she know everything? Did she somehow know about the Azimuth, about her link to it, already? Was she demanding that he admit to that?
“Get it over with!” she shouted. “Tell me you don’t need me anymore and you’re dumping me off here! Go on, get on with it! Tell me to go!”
Drake stared at her for a few moments in shock, then felt a laugh building in his chest which escaped before he could stop it. Of all the things she could be confronting him with she’d chosen the one thing which could never happen now.
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