The Beta!

"If you expect me to drink this like I did last time, you are wrong. That was a show of my good will, breaking the ice for our cooperation. Now, it's plain insulting." Also back then you knew nothing and my lies and half-thruths landed on a blank page. Now I don't know how I'll be able to go around the truth if he ties it to the lies I've been telling him.

"Yes, indeed. But you forget that you are the one than needs this cooperation more than I do so you despite the terrible insult, I think our friendship will survive, Miss Rose."

"Or I could order you to drink it, order the people that would burst into the room to drop dead and then find all your secrets. One moment of communion later and you lose everything you worked to build. And all I lose is my life." I smile as I get in his face. "Death hurts, but it's not that bad when you know you'll just start over a second later."

"Then why didn't you order me? Now and in the past?"

"Now, because I doubt you'd take the insult as well as I d