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How much of a failure was he?

Hot breath on your wounded skinkissestongues

Fighting to breathe, Kane flattened his hands on the edge of the sink He hardly cared when the porcelain cracked He wanted to rip Disaster out of his chest, and strangle the creature with his bare hands

Yes That’s the way his torht, at least a little, he could figure out a way to ut-wrenching irl from the motel The Fae He ached as he’d done when she’d touched him He tensed He cursed

He yearned

He remembered the adoration painted on her face as she looked at him, as if he were someone special A look he still didn’t understand--but wanted to experience again

He replayed the silly words she’d spoken to him

I never lie--except for the few times I do, in fact, lie, but it’s never intentional, and I’h, like, ten thousand pounds But they’re glorious pounds

I’ve been crossing off the seconds in the calendar in my heart

He wanted to knohat else she would say

Who was she? Where was she? What was she doing?

Wereher? Was she hurt? Alone? Scared?

A few ti her with nothing but tremors

He understood all too well the difficulty--the desperation--of an inescapable past

Had she found someone to end her? Had she ended herself?

Or was she still alive?

His arms dropped to his sides as his hands fisted She was his She--

Wasn’t his

Still, he wasn’t going to take care of his problem until he’d taken care of hers, was he? He couldn’t leave her out there, desperate and afraid, possibly in danger The girl had saved hih she’d run away from him, he had to step up and save her from what had to be the ht, after all He owed her And he would pay up Just not the way she wished He would fix her life the way he couldn’t fix his own Then, one of them would be happy

She deserved to be happy

If she still lived

He sucked in a sharp breath She had better still live, or he wouldhe would He punched thebells filled the s into his thigh A gift fro his teeth, he reirl, he could concentrate on killing the deive up until he succeeded He couldn’t take this anymore, and he didn’t want his friends to have to take it anyer to those around him, and there were too many innocents here

He would leave today, he decided, and he wouldn’t ever co him down He couldn’t talk to his friends about his decision They wouldn’t understand They would try to talk hiht even lock hiood"

They’d done it once before

Kane wouldn’t sneak away, but he wouldn’t adoodbyes, as if he meant to return after his rescuer had been saved Only he would know this was it The end

Jaw locked, Kane strapped weapons all over his body There were s and several clips He dressed in a black T-shirt and caed on his favorite pair of co under his feet, hisKane’s absence, his friends had moved into a fortress in the Realdom hidden in a pocket between earth and the lower level of the skies He strode down the hall, his gaze on the walls covered with pictures of a beautiful blonde fe on a velvet-lined couch, standing in a rose garden, dancing on a table Blowing a kiss Winking

Her na or other, as well as the keeper of Narcissism He couldn’t help but compare her to sper a huirl irritated the fire out of him