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So close yet so far.

Author: Cristina Cristey
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So close yet so far.

Braston personally went to the Amazon organization, obviously not allowed to enter, yet he requested a legal meeting so he could talk to the leader.

"To what do I owe your personal visit?" asked Brígida, the city's chief, with a tone of suspicion in her voice.

"Do you still maintain this strict and idiotic policy of keeping men out of the city?" Braston inquired almost shouting, his eyes fixed on Brígida's guards who had their weapons drawn towards him.

"Of course, I don't accept men of questionable character in my premises," she announced arrogantly, raising her chin challengingly, the muscles of her face tense.

"That's not what I saw..." Braston retorted, his voice laden with irony, his eyebrows raised in a gesture of disdain. "After all, the beastly assassin is in here, you know the war he can cause, don't you?" he asked calmly, but his eyes gleamed with a veiled threat.

"Are you angry because I was able to recruit him and you couldn't even get the girl from th
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