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me from a fitful sleep on Brylee's sofa. My temple throbbed with a dul

six brutal years in Boston, where every hour outside of work was spent taking online business classes and

oddess of vengeance. You spent six years living like a corporat

coffee. "I need a computer. A high-performance one. I

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oking up. I was exploiting a known backdoor in VeriSecure, the s

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name is a bankrupt shell, but having her as a docile ornament keeps our business alliances tidy. Play wi

tely obedient and boring as hell. I'm not interested in her skinny frame an

p, and grabbed a metal umbrella from the entryway rack. "That arrogant, parasitic m

gly calm as I saved the audio file. "A bat only le

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the laptop. "That's too easy. I'm going