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She nodded

"They look exactly like hihtful "This , Justin"

"Mr Gray is an asshole?"

"Your raspednow is not coincidence"

I ran rowled "She just told et the hell out of her life"

"Maybe she didn’t mean it Maybe she can’t say what she wants" Elyssa touched ave you a gift to hunt down your eneht kno to save your sister"

I took her other hand in ertips from the cliff of doom in my heart reached up another hand and took a firht" I sed a luoing to do?"

"Tell Dad and figure it out fro mass of students "I just don’t understand why she’s doing this The day before she left she told me she’d love me even if I hated her It’s al terrible Like she’d planned all this a long tio"

Elyssa pressed my hand to her heart I looked into her eyes and felt the pain and anger ht band of pressure across my chest eased I drew in a breath and squeezed back No words were necessary in that perfectnext to me Elyssa ith me, a part of me I could count on more than anyone else in the world

The love I felt for her right then swelled in ed her and buried my face in the soft strands of her black hair I drew in her soft sweet scent, the s else Maybe it was just the sha, but it made me think of her

"What do you want to do now?" Elyssa said, pulling back and regarding me with a soft expression "Your father is free and clear and it doesn’t look like the good old boys will be blackood question Dad would want to go after Ivy and Mom But there was a lot on the proverbial plate What Underborn had said about Thunder Rock and about the instability of the Conclave struck a nerve withto the bottom of Thunder Rock would clear up relations between Elyssa’s father andBut how could I possibly hope to solve so that happened before I was born?

No matter what Mom said, I had to find her and Ivy no matter the consequences It was time to plan Thunder Rock could wait Mr Gray awaited soht knohere the mansion in my memory was He and I would confront the evil bastard and find out why he was sending his puppet azed at Underborn He probably knew exactly where I could find this man But his price was too steep Maximus deserved a painful death, but I wasn’t the one to do it Let the master assassin handle it I’d find Mr Gray without his help

I let aze drift toward the crowd of students "Mo after her, so you knohat thatso after her Maybe the mansion from your memory is a hint Maybe she really wants you to find her"

I nodded and felt hope gain a firm hold on the cliff of dooo"

"I’m in" She pursed her lips "But re"

"I haven’t forgotten"

She tilted her head slightly and stared deep into ed"

I quirked an eyebrow "Miss the bottle-bottohtened the serious look on her face "Sometimes I still relasses and all" She pressed her hand against ly fir you even with all these disgusting hed "Give et rid of theh the shirt She pressed it flat and ran it up toestion, probably fro a little Pepto-Bismol won’t clear up"

She raised an eyebrow "I’ serious, Justin You killed someone"

"I did what I had to do He tried to kill your mom He took a shot at you" My entire body tensed "Yeah, I feel conflicted about it But I had no choice"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>