‘Let’s skip the pleasantries shall we? Both you and I know we’re not here for small talk’

_tough cookie he is_

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‘You and I both know what I am offering is far more than what you provide, a risk, another gamble’

_‘It is more valuable than you think. The potential rewards are great, it is something you have been searching for months.’_

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‘I hold in my hands the literal currency running this place, people would die over this, I have many more offers of far greater value than this.’

_He was right. _

_I had to take a risk to close this deal._

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_‘Walk away then. Do it.’_

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_He blinked. I won._

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I walked away with the Happy Meal between my grubby fingers as he was trying to peel the thin plastic of the Pokémon card pack.

‘NO’ his scream rang through the canteen.