Gene frowns. Damn, but she's making sense. "Okay," he says. "I'll take a break. But you can't make me enjoy it." The concession is grudging, but it's a concession all the same. He knows he sounds petulant, but he's not used to being the one who has to be talked into dialing it back. Not lately, anyway. Pepper's been filling that role these days.
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