Chapter 10: Assassin
“Darcy, you lazybones, get up. I’m not paying you to goldbrick.”
Jade shot bolt upright in bed, adrenalin pumping through her veins. Megan was sitting on the bed beside her, gently shaking her shoulder—and had Jade been even a hair less disciplined, the older woman would have had new injuries to add to her existing ones.
Jade’s muscles were knotted with the strain of not lashing out at the unexpected stimulus. When she could coordinate mind and tongue, she exploded. “Damnit, Cafferty, I’ve told you never to sneak up on me like that! Do you want to get yourself killed?”
“Nonsense. You know you’d never get paid if you killed me. But now that I’m finally feeling well enough to move around a bit, I expect you to be doing what you’re being paid so outlandishly for, not
