[ He was waiting for that question, and in fact he’s surprised it didn’t come sooner. That Peter asks it now startles a laugh at him, a short noise filled with bitter resentment- mostly aimed at himself. He has a very long list of “shit that went wrong since he left the Milano”, and until Peter was tearing him a new one he was pretty sure his capture was the shittiest and wrongest thing on there.

Go figure. ]

I wasn’t exactly operating at one hundred percent. [ Literally and figuratively. ] Didn’t cover my tracks as well as I usually did, and one of Grun’s rivals got wise to the fact that I was sniffing around. He sent a couple of his guys to offer me a job, or beat the information out of me if I said no.

Guess I wasn’t thinking then, either. I could have led them on at the very least, but I just flat-out told them to shove it and they didn’t like that much.