“He seems ordinary to me.” John commented easily. He wasn’t exactly an expert on normal society but he was fairly good at reading people. From a perspective of an assassin, an easy target, but there was no marker for Richie and the man had thus proven to be “good” in his book. There were far and few many reliable good people in the world.
A small huff and he let Ava go with a swift push to keep that distance between them. She’d seemed to calm down.
“Or, complete an impossible task.” It didn’t last though. That world would always try to have a hold on John. But his four years with Helen were worth everything. That taste of freedom was to good not to fight for. “Whatever way you’d like to look at it, I’m retired, and I’m trying to keep it that way.” He didn’t needlessly kill but he would if he had to.