Waiting for the right people isn't going to get us where we want; we need to go out and find..." She groped for the right word. A mission? A project? A job?

"Trouble?" Sicarius suggested.

"An endeavor that will help the city and prove to the emperor that we're undeserving of the bounties on our heads and we're invaluable resources to his regime."

"Trouble," Sicarius said.

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Before noon, they would be back in the city, the night's events like a dream. No, she though, too real for that. A memory.

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My father used to say some families are made by shared blood and some families are made by spilled blood

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Sicarius, as usual, regarded her with the blandness of a particularly featureless rock, then walked away.

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Sicarius had the personality of a particularly bland, pointy stick.

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Just so I'm clear...you thought a brothel would be a suitable place to host a birthday party for a woman?

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Nobody wants to be interrogated in his brothel suit

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Sicarius wore his usual guess-my-thoughts-if-you-can-mask, though she sensed he did not approve.

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Why, Sicarius, is it possible you have a playful side beneath your razor-edged knives, severe black clothing and humourless glares?

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Sicarius,” Amaranthe said quietly.

He bent low, eyes toward her face.

With the men laughing and talking up front, and the lorry clacking and chugging as the stack billowed black smoke into the air, this was scarcely a romantic spot. But maybe it did not matter. His response would not likely be to wrap her in his arms and kiss her. Whatever response he gave — if he gave one at all — she anticipated it would sting.

“I…uhm…” Amaranthe forced herself to meet his gaze. “I love you.”

A long moment passed. She did not remember breathing.

Sicarius nodded infinitesimally. “I know.

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