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mercenaries. They would move and react as a team, making them easier to manipulate.
    â€œElevators shut down and bulkhead doors closed,” Lizzie announced through the comm.
    â€œGood,” Jeth said, then returned his attention to Vince. “How far apart are the guards standing?”
    Vince rubbed his chin. “Fifteen meters, probably. What are you thinking? Little Felix?”
    â€œYep, unless one of you has a clever way out of this.” Jeth eyed the others, some of the pressure easing now that he knew that all the ways into the dock were locked down.
    Sierra frowned up at him. “How are you going to get close enough to set it off?”
    â€œEasy.” Jeth pulled one of the prostheses off his nose and tucked it into his pocket before moving on to the next. “Vince will pretend he just captured the ITA’s most wanted. That should put us in range for Felix.”
    Celeste’s mouth opened in a grimace. “That plan takesfirst prize for dumbest ever. Those security guards can’t possibly be that stupid.”
    Jeth hid a wince. “I didn’t say it was brilliant, but it’ll work.”
    â€œYeah, it will,” said Vince, crossing his muscular arms over an equally muscular chest. “Even if they don’t believe us, it’s not like they’ll shoot us on sight.”
    Celeste pinned Vince with her dark-eyed gaze, a look capable of rendering most people temporarily awestruck with its ferocity. “You can’t be sure of that.”
    A wide grin spread over Vince’s lips and he winked. “Sure we can. With looks like mine, they’ll know at once I’m too pretty for deception.”
    Celeste’s face contorted as she fought back a smile. “Whoever said you were pretty?”
    â€œWhat? You don’t think so?”
    To Jeth’s astonishment, Celeste blushed. In the years he’d known her, he could count on less than three fingers how many times such a thing had happened. But then, Celeste and Vince had been circling one another for weeks now, the flirtation getting more and more obvious. Jeth couldn’t understand what was taking so long. Normally, once Celeste set her eye on someone it was a done deal. Boyfriends were her hobby, a way of unwinding and passing time. She’d always been the type to go after what she wanted. But with Vince she’d been holding back, as if afraid. Of what, Jeth didn’t know. She certainly liked him, that much was clear.
    Jeth shook his head and snapped his fingers. “Can wefocus, please? Besides, if the guards try to turn us away or if they suspect something, we can just toss Felix at them.” It wasn’t a great plan B, considering how hard it was to be accurate with something as inconveniently shaped as a personal comm, but it would work, nonetheless.
    â€œThat’s right,” Vince added. “And there’s no way they could guess we have a Little Felix anyway.”
    Jeth nodded. The nerve bomb alone was hard to come by, and the antidotes needed to be immune to it were even harder. Jeth’s uncle and a little bit of money had made it possible. Once upon a time Milton had been a doctor and scientist for the ITA, a background that gave him the know-how on unusual things like nerve bomb antidotes.
    Sierra laid a hand on Jeth’s arm, drawing his attention. “They might not fire on you at first, but if you don’t take all of them out with Felix then they definitely will.”
    â€œI know.” Jeth placed his right hand on top of hers. And for once, touching her, the hand felt like his and not some stranger’s. “That’s why I’ll need your gun. Vince and I will take care of any stragglers.”
    Sierra’s mouth closed, the tight line of her lips signifying her disapproval. She might be quieter in her protest than Celeste, but to him that just meant it went deeper, mattered more. Most times Sierra was the lull before the