No taste for skullduggery or deception

"Alright," Alicia began to ask as she placed her bag of popcorn down on the ground, "why...did Zhen Liu tell him all that? Also, hello, when were y'all going to mention about returning to Roaring Tide?"

"I'm with the redhead on this," Bellona chimed in, "why?"

The two of them were staring straight at Jin Fang as they asked this question.

Out of the four ladies present, three of them were actually interested in the doofus pretending to be an evil mastermind, and among those three, one of them had been dating them the longest, ergo, understood the fuck he was doing.

Jin Fang had her fingers steepled as she thought about what her boyfriend was doing telling these would-be assassins the clan's future plans... until it dawned on her.

"I...I think he's forcing an ultimatum," Jin Fang observed.

"What?"

"What do you mean by ultimatum?"

"Just watch."

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