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тАЬDonтАЩt foul this up,тАЭ Jeldis hissed over his shoulder.
тАЬPiss off.тАЭ
Jeldis offered no retort, merely stalked down the alley and out of sight.
Vasen watched him go, imagining how satisfying it would be to bury a dagger in
his spine, then turned back to business.
He drew a dagger, his tool for close work. The metal of the hilt felt cool in
his hand. His heart rate accelerated slightly тАУ but only slightly. He brushed the
red hair from his face and waited.
Within a few moments voices sounded from behind the door. Vasen could
not make out the words, but he knew it had to be Nomen and the bodyguard.
The door opened.
Nomen staggered through first, stumbled, and slipped to the ground.
тАЬBlast,тАЭ he cursed, his voice slurred with drink.
Behind him, the bodyguard filled the doorway. A hulking brute, the
dark-haired bastard fairly glittered with steel: a chainmail shirt, two daggers,
and a broadsword. Vasen figured him to be new to the job. An experienced man
would never have let his charge walk through the door first. If Vasen had
wanted to kill Nomen, he could have done it before the bodyguard ever got out
of the doorway.
тАЬDonтАЩt just stand there, lout,тАЭ said Nomen. тАЬHelp me up.тАЭ
The big man murmured something unintelligible, looked once up and
down the alley тАУ his eyes looked over and past Vasen тАУ closed the inn door, and
stalked forward to help Nomen regain his feet.
The moment the bodyguard exposed his back, Vasen erupted from the
shadows. The big man never saw it coming. Vasen drove his dagger into the
manтАЩs neck just under the base of the skull. Death came instantly. Vasen
jerked the dagger free, shouldered the corpse to the ground, and stood over
Nomen.
The brown haired young nobleman stared at him with eyes as wide as
coins. His mouth hung open. He seemed to want to say something, but nothing
came forth save a frightened croak.
Without a word, Vasen slammed the hilt of his dagger into the
noblemenтАЩs temple. He went out with a soft groan.
Moving quickly, he dragged the bodyguardтАЩs corpse into the darkness
further down the alley. Afterward, he bound and gagged Nomen. HeтАЩd have to
carry the pudgy nobleman across town to the drop by himself. Vasen had told
his team that the client wanted to deal with him alone тАУ a lie. HeтАЩd told them
too that the job paid two hundred and fifty platinum тАУ another lie. It paid three
hundred. He planned to skim fifty off the top, just as he did with every job.
Soon he would have enough coin stashed away to buy him passage and a
comfortable life somewhere else. He would only miss Theevis when he left.
He gripped Thorsar by the cloak and heaved the unconscious nobleman
over his shoulder. He would take the back alleys to avoid prying eyes. This job
would go off like every other тАУ without a problem.

Though it took longer then he had anticipated, the drop went fine.