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ripped through his chest. He
gasped in pain feeling like his heart was on fire.
                “You
alright man?” he heard Jax’ concerned voice somewhere next to him.
                “I don’t
know, heart burn I guess,” he rubbed his fist over his heart, trying to relieve
the pain.
                He had the
feeling that Nora was upset somewhere; like she was furious and scared at the
same time.
                Of course
she would be, with the way she reacted to him upstairs, he was probably lucky
to be alive. He thought about going back inside to try and talk to her, maybe
smooth things over, but only an hour had passed since she had angrily rejected
him, going to see her now would only make things worse.
                “You sure?”
Jax stared at him.
                “Yeah, I
knew Thai food was a bad idea for lunch,” he brushed off the concern and put
his game face on. 
                The drive
to upstate New York ran smoothly, the farther away from the embassy they got,
the more the vice grip on his heart lessened.
                Finally
they pulled off a country road and killed the engine. Roughly four miles off
into the distance they could just make out the silhouette of an old farm house.
It had to be the location.
                There was
very little tree cover nearby, and with the sun blazing overhead to expose
them, they would have to get low to make it close without being caught.
                Silently
they both dropped down to their bellies and began army crawling.
                Stopping
half a mile before the house they chose their watch point.  Sitting up was not
an option, so instead they laid flat and completely still as the midday sun
beat down on them, watching and waiting.
                And
waiting.
                Quinn had
counted the number of withered roof tiles three times over before Jax finally
let out an impatient sigh.
                “I hate
sitting around like this,” he grumbled, shifting his weight, “especially when
there’s nothing going on. This house has got to be abandoned.”
                Quinn gave
a non committal grunt and went back to wondering what Nora was doing at the
moment; probably putting barbed wire around her apartment and coming up with a
plan to kill him in his sleep. Neither of which would come close to stopping
him.
                “So how are
things going with Nora?” Jax asked slyly, as if he’d been waiting for a good
opportunity to bring it up.
                “Just
fucking great,” he shook his head, “you really are a gossip queen, no wonder
the chicks love you so much.”
                “Oh yeah,
because Nora not wanting you is SUCH a shocking piece of information,” he
rolled his eyes, “I’m sure everyone at the embassy is an uproar over it. By the
way, the ‘chicks’ like me so much because I’m a good friend to them.”
                Quinn was
lining up another sarcastic come back when a thought struck him. 
                “Hey lemme
ask you something?” he felt like he had struck gold, “why is she doing this?
She have a nasty break up or something? Does she hate all men, or is it just
me?”
                Jax cocked
his head to the side and gave him a hard stare, as if he was unsure how to
respond.
                “I’m not a
hundred percent sure, I’ve never asked her myself, but I have heard all the
rumors,” he finally replied, looking as if the decision to answer had weighed
heavily on him.
                Quinn was
caught a little off guard by ‘all the rumors’, but wanted to at least know what
everyone else did. If he didn’t know why she was resisting so hard, how could
he fight her on it?
                “What’s the
rumors? I need to know,” he replied firmly.