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daze. Amber looked like she was torn between rolling her eyes right along with me and just bolting out the front door, which was the last thing we needed to happen.
    Because I couldn’t speak for Allen, but I had absolutely no intention of letting Amber out of this house for the next week at least.
    “What was I saying?” Allen asked and I curiously wondered where his thoughts had wandered off to.
    “You were saying that you two are kidnapping murderers,” Amber said coldly.
    I frowned. “Oh no, sweetheart. Someone must’ve gotten their wires crossed. I don’t kidnap people. Neither does Allen.”
    “Well, then your ‘ people ’ do.”
    Ahhh, now it made sense. Allen must have mentioned that we have others working with us. She seemed stuck on the kidnapping angle and I wondered if telling her that we only had two people on the entire team who were morally loose enough to do those jobs would make her feel any better.
    “Amber, I know this must be a shock to someone who grew up as sheltered as you did, but this shit does happen in real life,” Allen said slowly, as if he was speaking to a child.
    I winced and braced myself for her outrage. To my great surprise, it never came. She just blinked and stared at Allen as he continued.
    “But you have to believe me when I say that the things the Sanchez family does are far worse than anything me or my team has ever done. I hate to phrase it like this, but you’re going to have to choose between two evils. And I guarantee that we’re the lesser.”
    “The devil you know,” I added with a chuckle, gesturing between the two step-siblings.
    Amber looked between the two of us with a furrowed brow, finally understanding the severity of what she had been pulled into. She sighed and nodded, the resignation clear in her eyes.
    “Alright, alright. Point taken. So what do I need to do?”
    “Just stay here. Stay with us,” Allen said, his voice taking on a pleading tone. “John and I will keep you safe.”
    I nodded. “Yeah. At least one of us will stay with you at all times while we work this out.”
    “Do you really think you can fix it?” she asked hopefully.
    “We will,” Allen promised. “One way or another, we will get you out of danger.”
    I could sense Amber’s hesitation, but she ultimately accepted the graveness of the situation and nodded in defeat.
    “Aright, fine. I’ll hole up in here while you two... do whatever it is you do. Just don’t give me any gory details.”
    “We won’t,” Allen assured her. “Come on, I’ll show you to the guest bedroom.”
    She stood up and started following him and I trailed behind the duo, listening to Amber as she asked, “What about clothes and stuff? I can’t live out of my purse.”
    “I’ll buy you new clothes. Just give me your sizes and a list of anything else you need.”
    Amber scoffed. “Like I would trust your sense of fashion.”
    “It’s not like you’ll be going out in whatever I buy you,” Allen pointed out.
    “Haven’t I lost enough of my dignity what with being spied on and nearly sold into sex trafficking or whatever?”
    “I’m not going to buy you shitty clothes, Amber. My fashion sense has evolved since high school.”
    “You couldn’t tell by that outfit,” she mumbled.
    Allen stopped and looked down at his khaki pants and light blue button down shirt with a frown. “What’s wrong with this outfit?”
    “You look like you’re going to go door-to-door selling bibles or something,” Amber said as she crossed her arms over her chest. “It’s not hot. Like, at all.”
    Allen growled and kept walking as he clipped out, “I need to do laundry, this was all that was clean.”
    “Oh, I’m sure.”
    I laughed out loud and the pair stopped to turn around, regarding me curiously as I doubled over and clenched my stomach as wave after wave of uncontrollable laughter shook me.
    “What’s so funny?” Allen demanded.
    “You two...God, you two bicker like you’re really brother