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She would never have expected it from him. From James? Sure, but it wasn’t James who was staring her down with cold, cruel eyes, who had turned into a manipulative bastard with materialistic tendencies. No. It was Kaidan.
“It’s over, Annie,” he told her, a smug grin on his face.
Shepard stared into his unforgiving gaze and couldn’t understand where she had gone wrong. They had been allies once—friends! But now, now there was only shattered dreams of what could have been...
Had she hurt him? Crossed him in some unintentional way? Why was this happening? There was no doubt that she had paved her own way at the beginning, she was Commander Shepard, Savior of the Galaxy, it was what she did, but she was also a team player. She could play by the rules, of course she could, but playing by the rules hadn’t worked out so well this time.
“Oh, fine,” Shepard conceded with a huff, tossing the rest of her money onto the board. Kaidan laughed as the brightly multi-colored papers scattered about and knocked over several of his red and green plastic pieces. James playfully poked at Annie's oh-so-adorable pouting face.
“And for the record," Shepard added, "we’re never playing Monopoly again,”