“And the female?”
He swallowed nervously, even though he had no cause to be nervous. When he ended the call, his debt was paid.
“Taken up with the Warborne mercenaries.”
The line went dead and he sagged against the side of the booth. That was it. It was done. He was free.
Turning, he walked away from the booth, his steps lighter than they had been for years. Or the first was. The second took a little more effort and by the third, his body wasn’t responding anymore.
He gasped, trying to drag air into lungs that no longer worked as he crumbled to the floor. He looked down, eyeball almost against the dirty tiles of the floor in the lobby. Something dark and questionable lay between them that the cleaning bots had missed.
That black stain was the last thing he saw before the darkness cla
