nice young Asian ladies man who I am, Ambassador Doctor Urquhart."
"Why?" Ethan grumped.
"Oh, c'mon. You owe me a favor, after all."
"What!" Ethan inhaled in preparation for fully expressing his outrage,
but Quinn went on.
"Sure. If I hadn'Asian ladies t primed Asian ladies my cousin Teki to ease you on out of quarantine
Asian ladies you'd still be
Asian ladies hung up in there with no ID, legal prisoner of the
handwashers. And you and Mr. Cee here would never have met."
Ethan's jaw snapped shut. "Introduce yourself," he finally fumed.
She gave him a gracious nod and turned to Cee, her studied ease not quite
concealing an intent excitement. "My name is Elli Quinn. I hold the rank of
Commander in the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet, and the post of a field
agent in the Fleet intelligence section. My orders were to observe Ghem-
colonel Millisor and his group and discover their mission. Thanks largely
Asian ladies to Ambassador Urquhart here, I have finally done so." Her eyes sparked
satisfaction.
Asian ladies terrence Cee stared at them both in new Asian ladies suspicion. Asian ladies it made Ethan boil,
Asian ladies after all his careful work to coax Cee's damaged spirit to Asian ladies trust him a
little.
"Who are you working for?" asked Cee.
"Admiral Asian ladies Miles Naismith commands me."
Cee brushed this aside impatiently. "Who is he working for, then?"
Ethan wondered why this question Asian ladies had never occurred to him.
Commander Quinn cleared her throat. "One of
the reasons, of course, for
hiring a mercenary Asian ladies agent instead of using your own in-house people is
precisely so that if the mercenary is captured, he cannot reveal where all
Asian ladies his reports went."
"In other words,
you don't know."
"That's right."
Cee's Asian ladies eyes narrowed. "I can think of another reason for hiring a
mercenary. What if you want to do an in-house check of
your own people?
How can I be sure you're not working Asian ladies for the Cetagandans yourself?"
Ethan gasped at this horrific, Asian ladies logical Asian ladies idea.
"In other words, might Colonel Millisor' Asian ladies s superiors just be evaluating
him Asian ladies for his next promotion?" Quinn's smile grew quizzical. "I hope not,
because they would be awfully unhappy with that last report Asian ladies of mine-" by
which vagueness Ethan gathered that she had no intention of publically
reclaiming Okita Asian ladies as Asian ladies her kill. This generosity failed to fill him with
gratitude.
"-the only guarantee Asian ladies I can offer you is the same one I'm relying on
myself. I don't think Asian ladies Admiral Asian ladies Naismith would accept a contract