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Chapter 8, section 9: Surrounded and cornered
She went on to inventory his interests and describe the steps she had taken to undermine them. The list was complete, including interests that were purely speculative and all of his bread and butter businesses. In every case, Artemis had pushed the situation close to the breaking point, but not past where it could be rescued if he acted fast.
Chapter 8, section 8: revenge can be complicated
When the fire door had slammed into place, Artemis pulled the other chair over and sat down. She offered Hermes a glass of water, then sat in silence as he drained it in one toss. “I see you’ve enjoyed the operation so far.”
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Chapter 8, section 7: Sergeant Hunter, I presume.
She was right about being incapable of locomotion without collision. When he tried to walk through the door, he walked into the frame instead.
Chapter 8, section 6: too fucking much
It was well into the next day, and he began to feel the effects of overabundance. Suspicions about the situation had turned into full-blown terrors about the nature of the error he might have made in letting things unfold rather than second-guessing them as he normally would.
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Chapter 8, section 5: sweet torture
At first he was delighted at the nature of his incarceration. Then he grew suspicious that maybe he had made a terrible mistake and the situation wasn’t what he thought at all. Finally, he saw that he had underestimated his adversary.
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Chapter 8, section 10: Let’s make a deal