“You could save your buddies’ lives,” he said, “at the expense of your own ass.” Perez said these answers are unacceptable.
She was thrilled by his shift in fortune — “when I saw him, it was like being reborn,” she said — but was not expecting a fairy tale.
The fight was swift — “it went by like a flash,” the other man said.
What are you thinking?”
“It’s nothing, pretty gypsy,” he said.