only natural,” the soldier replied. “If you weren’t suspicious, I’d think you were crazy.”
“Call me sane, then.”
“Good. As for the trust, we’ve started building it. I can’t believe you’d sit there waiting for the bomb, then drop those shooters, if you were on Macario’s payroll.”
Pureza felt her cheeks warm at the sound of her own thoughts, spoken by this man. “I can say the same for you,” she said.
“Okay. We’re straight on that, then. Next, you have to ask yourself what one man—or the two of us together—can possibly accomplish in the face of killer odds.”
“You should become a mind reader,” she said.
“I’m sticking to the obvious,” Bolan said. “We’ve already cleared the first hurdle, trashed Macario’s plan and sent four of his hardmen home in body bags. He’ll be angry over that, and sometimes anger breeds mistakes.”
“You’re right about the anger,” Pureza said. “His rage is almost legendary, and the punishments he metes out are…extreme. As for mistakes, he’s made none yet that I’m aware of.”
“Wrong. We’ve seen the first already,” he said. “We’re still alive.”
“Is that a victory?”
“Damn right. Now all we have to do is stay alive and keep hitting Macario where it hurts most, until he runs out of steam.”
“Perhaps you underestimate him,” she suggested.
“I’ve been up against his kind before,” Bolan replied. “They’re tough, no doubt about it. But they’re only human. Humans die.”
“It’s all-out war, then?”
“To the bitter end. If you want out, the time to bail is now.”
“And spend the rest of my short life in hiding? No, thank you.”
Her answer seemed to satisfy him. Bolan simply said, “Okay. We’re good to go.”
“One thing you must remember, Mr. Cooper.”
“Make it ‘Matt.’”
“All right. One thing you must remember, Matt.”
“Which is?”
“We’re only human, too.”
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