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There would be nothing left of the’s dark entrance and quietly jumped down the stone stairwell at the back She could hear voices co from the end of this hallway and s steel door Lily and Adaain She rapped on the door and it slid back within seconds Gazing at her, with an annoying crease of concern between his eyebrows, Reuben stepped back to allow her entry

"Where have you been? You ed and nodded at the two va in one of the back roo her leather jacket here and her blades there The axe she placed in safe keeping on a wall mount she had up in the bedroo at the back of her

"Jae, what’s up?" His cool hands slid up her ared hilared at her froue by , a habit she noticed he had when he was thinking over so that a lot lately"

She knehere he was going with his line of thought and she was just too daan rifling through her drawer for a clean one

Reuben hissed, bringing her gaze snapping up to him His eyes were narrowed on her as they looked her over "So"

Inwardly she flinched, outwardly it pissed her off "Is that a warning I detect, Reuben?" she sneered, pulling on a clean shirt

"Maybe"

She blanched at the anger in his voice and sighed "I’et Lykans are used to the whole undressing in front of each other thing"

"I know Just try to remember I’m not made of stone"

She flushed involuntarily, an aard silence falling between theht he had kissed her and been thoroughly rebuffed

He cleared his throat and she sensed a now fa solo?"

She was right "I’ by yourself? You’ve been doing it since that night in here with Lily"

Jae winced just thinking about it "She could have been killed"

"But she wasn’t," Reuben replied softly, approaching her tentatively Slowly he sat down beside her on the bed, see afraid she would snap at hiot too close "You’ve been controlling your telekinesis"

Not that night Not when she had nightmares When she ake and in control she was able to harness whatever energy it was that gave her the ability to s with her mind, but as soon as her e the chaos She had been fine around Reuben and his gang; killing va all her hate into pounding the living daylight out of theible connection to these good va o, she had started having nighte She didn’t knohy or how… but they were vivid and horrifying, and kicked her telekinesis into high gear She had been awoken by Lily’s screams Six blades were embedded into the walls around them, and her precious axe was embedded above Lily’s head as she cowered in the corner of the room Books, furniture, clothes were strewn everywhere, and Lily’s nose was bleeding, a black bruise appearing on her porcelain face Jaeden had refused to let her sleep in the same room with her – or anyone – since And she’d refused to go out hunting with any of theot them killed

"Only when my emotions are stable I can’t take chances, OK"

For her that was the end of the discussion

"Do you want to talk about these nightmares?"

"Uh no"

"What about that?"

Jae frowned and looked up to see what he was talking about He was pointing to her axe ed and looked at her, trying to appear cal you can’t control it, why do you have a weapon in here that could kill you in your sleep?"

Because it doesn’t matter

She didn’t say that Reuben would kill her himself if she said that He wanted her to be so happy here with hi off Lily’s inheritance But she was miserable She ached with every part of her body for the pack She wanted her mother and father, and her little niece Jaela She wanted to run free with theh the woods behind Lucien’s house, and play and tussle with Sebastian Her dresser began to shake at the thought of Seb and she quickly threw hi him back

She could have the pack back if she wanted

But she didn’t She wouldn’t