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"I can't allow that," Lucan replied, half laughing "She is a liability, and clearly o," Kiran turned his frustration on his father

"I will decide who is free and who is not," Lucan's voice turned cold

"We had a deal, Father!" Kiran protested with carefully controlled rage

"Letand my word is the law!" Lucan shouted at his son and Kiran flinched in response

"Your Highness, please She cannot do anything on her own You said it yourself, she's ed softly and with ht over Kiran's words for ame over with calculated suspicion "Fine," he said si toward a black sedan, surrounded by Guards

"This is the second time I have saved your life" Kiran turned his attention back to ain, you will be begging for me to end it"

"The next time I see you, Kiran, or your father for that ain, at least for thefrom me I promise you that"

Kiran laughed in response, "We will see," He sobered up, looking at me one last time, "After this, I will not protect you any his father I couldn't take it anye With a frustrated shudder ofthose holding on so tightly, falling to the floor in helplessness I righted uttural screaainst theling to get to their feet

Kiran glanced back atinto the sedan behind his father A Guard shut the door behind hih the blood soaked snow, off the farm and out of my life

I looked back at the last of the ResistanceAvalon anywhere

Where are you? I demanded telepathically

It doesn't matter Do not co to happen I said honestly

All right, fine But follow Aoing to have to co Avalon instructedto believe it should be any other way a tear escaped ainst my cheek

South America? But where in South America? I asked, frustrated I didn't have time to search the entire continent of South Aood, too

Start with Silas; heStart with him; he'll have some answers for you He's in Peru, in the mountains, the colony is not far froic Avalon's instructions got faster, the farther fro after you now, before before anything happens to you! I begged desperately

No There are too many of them, you'll just end up locked aith me Avalon was fir

But what if what if they sacrifice you before I can get to you? I broke down, tears of rage and heartbreak poured out of e of the farive you all of ic All of it Lucan cannot sacrifice a human, now can he? He asked, pleased with himself

But he can kill a huht be our only chance for survival

Yes, but he won't He'll save me for collateral You know that He reasoned soundly and I couldn't argue with him We both kneas our only option We won't be able to coh; if I do this, our connection is cut off coiveness, using the shared emotional channel we shared, one last tiiveness flooding edy, but it was not your fault And now, you are our only hope You cannot fail Not for ain, Avalon And I will rectify this I promised

I believe you He said with the ut, and Avalon carry on I echoed Amory's last coreement

Then I will see you soon Avalon whispered inside of our heads, preparing to release his ic completely

Yes, you will I swore and then felt ic and our ood We were coic and it dawned on me how very alone I was now

I had a mission, an impossible task ahead of me and there was not a moment to spare But before I could continue on the epic journey ahead ofI needed to do One final end to tie up

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