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Chapter 17: Impasse
The barrel rested against the back of his neck, cold in a way that wasn’t just physical, and the hand gripping his collar hadn’t shifted even a millimeter.
Proxy stayed very still and ran the situation, because stillness was sometimes the only available form of movement. He couldn’t reach the handgun before she pulled the trigger. He couldn’t move forward because she had his collar and he had no advantage on her, which reduced his options to a list so short it barely qualified as a list.
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