[ With enough time granted to mull over everything, Sharon had concluded that Break's reasons for telling Gilbert everything could have included the possibility that he'd been banking on Gilbert being the one to fill her in. And he had certainly offered, but this wasn't something she felt she needed to hear from anyone else but Break himself, regardless of whether he truly wished to discuss it or not.
For now, she listens. There are more questions following that, some which she can answer for herself. Of course the Corporation would have known about the chip... what didn't they know? Why they had chosen to send Break... they likely knew about their relationship, but to wait for this point... and to force him into a position where...
And of course she'd told him, and hadn't thought anything strange about how he'd paled at the time. She couldn't have known what she'd told him about was the very thing he'd been ordered to retrieve... and it had been in such a place that to retrieve it without killing her was impossible. ]
... And what would have happened, had you refused?
[ Because she senses there's more to it than that. If nothing else, she wants to believe that Break wouldn't have murdered her if he'd been able to find another option or escape the possibility entirely. ]
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For now, she listens. There are more questions following that, some which she can answer for herself. Of course the Corporation would have known about the chip... what didn't they know? Why they had chosen to send Break... they likely knew about their relationship, but to wait for this point... and to force him into a position where...
And of course she'd told him, and hadn't thought anything strange about how he'd paled at the time. She couldn't have known what she'd told him about was the very thing he'd been ordered to retrieve... and it had been in such a place that to retrieve it without killing her was impossible. ]
... And what would have happened, had you refused?
[ Because she senses there's more to it than that. If nothing else, she wants to believe that Break wouldn't have murdered her if he'd been able to find another option or escape the possibility entirely. ]