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Chapter Ten
Fail to complete a mission one time and Fett would be forgiving. Fail to complete a mission a second time and Fett would ensure that you would be unable to succeed or fail on another mission ever again.
Zam knew it. Knew she was living on borrowed time. Sure there had been failed missions before...Before Fett found her, saw her skills and talents then coaxed her...forced her almost into joining his circle of bounty hunters. Elite hunters who were more successful as they focused more on their targets then on the bounty hunters nipping at their heels and after the same bounty. Fett handed out assignments and you did it. No questions asked.
She hadn't failed after joining Fett's circle. She couldn't fail. She had seen what had had happen to those who failed twice. Fail again and she wouldn't live long enough to escape from the life of a bounty hunter and return to her family.
She had been a fool. Comfortable enough that the security-loathing Senator would reject anything more than a couple bodyguards. Secure in her high place within the circle. Cocooned by thoughts that Fett would never do away with her because her skills were too valuable to him.
How wrong she was. Pride came before a fall and she had fallen hard. Fallen far.
Zam pressed a button on her wrist com, summoning her probe droid. It hovered waiting as Zam shoved the canister of kouhuns into a compartment then programmed its orders.
The droid flew away and Zam watched. It wasn't given a single second glance. Just another probe droid blending into the Coruscant night.
