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Inara sped her bike through the streets, taking a longer route that steered off the location of Men’s Aura. The route that cut towards Lemuel’s office would have saved her ten minutes but being spotted on her bike was a risk she wasn’t prepared to take.

Being the early hours of the afternoon, there was no traffic and she reached Zee’s place in about forty minutes.

Zee met her outside, dressed like her but with black sneakers. They hugged and then lifted Inara’s bike into the booth of Zee’s truck. They reasoned that to save time, once the mission was complete, Inara won’t need to come back to Zee’s place but return home from somewhere closer.

As soon as they were inside the truck, Zee passed a black beanie to her and wore one herself.

“Zee, we look like criminals.” Inara said as she finished wearing hers.

“We are what we need to be.” Zee said and started the car.

“Zee we have to be fast. Lemuel can’t get home before me or I’m dead. He will skin me alive.”

“I know. We’ll be fast.” Zee as