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A miracle landed at our doorstep, yet Scarlett was giving the gods a ‘fuck you’ finger for sending it our way whenever she got the chance.

“You definitely have no intention of helping these men and I know it, so stop fucking lying, okay?”

I’d heard her say, and despite Wathoni’s attempt to sway her thinking, she’d gone ahead to light fire to gasoline and that’s why I’d stepped in to extinguish the fire before it blew up in all our faces.

Now I was face to face with her and she seemed completely unapologetic about what had conspired between her and Wathoni. The look on her face was enough to tell me that she knew I’d overheard them.

“Why’re you doing this, Scarlett? She’s just trying to help, without her we’d have never found the Shahato’s new hideout,” I said tiredly as she walked towards where I was in the doorway.

“I really don’t want to get into the whys of this entire thing, I just want you to answer me one question Blake,” she sighed as she reached me, “can you do that for