REJECTED ME BUT KARMA CAME FOR YOU
"You did that. For me."
"I did that," Samantha confirmed, "because our arrangement only works if you're free to keep our arrangement. It wouldn't do either of us any good for you to be sitting in a police interrogation room right now, would it?"
Chloe said nothing for a long moment, staring blankly at the television still playing footage of the hotel's exterior, police tape fluttering faintly in the breeze.
"Thank you," she finally whispered, hating herself for how much she meant it.
"You don't need to thank me," Samantha said. "You need to remember it. That's how partnerships work, Chloe — one favor remembered leads to the next one owed."