- 10 Year Anniversary Rewrite Edition -
"Can we keep her?" Tyler begged, clasping his hands together in a pleading gesture and bouncing on his toes. "Please, Keith? Can we keep her, huh, huh, huh?"
Keith gave his subordinate a glare. "No, Tyler, we cannot keep her." He shifted that glare onto me. "We have to get rid of her."
Wait, what?! Get rid of me? Meaning terminate? Meaning execute? Meaning DIE?!
"But, Keith," Tyler whined, unfazed by Keith's deathly stare. "She's just the cutest lil' thing!" Tyler marched up to me and squeezed my cheeks together.
Keith was unamused.
"Look at how innocent this face is! You wouldn't suspect a thing from her, don't you agree?"
At Tyler's words, I could almost visualize a lightbulb activating over Keith's head. No, actually, I could literally see the light-
Oh, wait, Ethan just flipped on the light switch.
But the look on Keith's face was starting to grow, and unease started creeping into my stomach. "Tyler, you're a genius."
"I am?!"
"He is?!"
And suddenly I had a feeling I wasn't going to make it out of here alive.