Alarm

She woke up wondering if, in her sleep, she’d revealed her secrets to the person snoring next to her. Not that she herself knew where her skills, manipulative abilities, or ethics had come from. But what she did remember would shock him: Stuff for evil governments. Taking money from two sides simultaneously, each to sabotage the other. Secrets no human should know, involving whole families, whole towns even. Stuff that had made her so much money, she couldn’t possibly use it all, so she gave it away. He’d probably like that. That’s the part she’d tell him in the morning.