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Chapter 26
The ride had gone on for about ten minutes before Ricardo suddenly coughed and Megan looked at him. "What is it?" she asked with a look that said that she had been expecting him to say something all along.
"Well," he looked a bit unsure on how to proceed, "I want to say that I really appreciate you saying that I could be trusted. I know the director would never have allowed me to continue on this mission if you didn't vouch for me."
"But I didn't vouch for you, Mr. DiSanto," she returned, her tone cold and impassive. "What I said was that you're a man that will do whatever it takes to stay alive, which is about the only truthful thing about you."
"That's not fair, Megan." Ricardo turned to glare at her for longer than she was comfortable with it and for a split second, she feared he wa
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Megan approached the front of the warehouse with Ricardo and Adolf in tow. Nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary as they went- in fact, nothing appeared to be in the environment at all besides the building- but just to be safe, she signaled that they all keep their eyes peeled and be ready for anything at any moment- bad guys tended to have a knack for springing out of nowhere, she thought with a look around, it was highly unlikely they were going to suddenly stop exercising that bad habit.The trio finally got to the building's frontage after about a minute of cautious walking and Megan waved two fingers back at the SUVs; her signal to Kei and Jay to maintain the two minutes count before they came out after them."Alright," she gestured to Ricardo when she looked to see a computerized keypad on the wall, "looks l
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