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"You’ve been unconscious for nearly a day We thought at ti to lose you Anwyn has fed you at proper intervals"

Which explained the faintly bitter, ue

There was a pillow on Anwyn’s sofa, and she’d gathered it into her body now She was treht after a seizure, so she h she’d been changed into a nightgown, it was filthy with dried blood, voan had let her have the slack, apparently having fixed the loosened bolt The links and manacles firmly fastened to wrists and ankles had more of her bodily fluids crusted on thean "Why is she chained? And why haven’t you cleaned her up?"

"Because she preferred theher seizures She has not allowed an’s expression remained impassive, Gideon didn’t need an inroad into the s here had been pretty volatile while he was out Soht be re point

"Okay Well" He cleared his throat Things were co back to him He remembered he’d been pretty bloodstained hii pants and thin T-shirt, probably both fro aroma of the man on them Jesus, that eird to notice, let alone receive a sense of reassurance fro, and oddly, he was starting to feel pretty good Better than pretty good Realizing that was because he was third-ut He had no idea how to feel about that He vaguely re in a vise cla pain of it Jacob had never described it that way But none of this had been the usual, had it?

"Uo take a break, and I’ll help her clean up" He glanced at Anwyn "If you’re okay with that"

It was a long aze touched Gideon’s face, then aze exactly, but more as if she wouldn’t take the chance that she’d look toward Daegan, since he stood next to Gideon

Daegan blinked once "It would be best if I stayed close Though she can no longer do you pere, unless she finds a way to stake you with one of the reat deal of control on the filters on her reat disorientation, where you cannot tell which thoughts are your own"

"I think he’s telling you to fuck off, Daegan," Anwyn said "Maybe give us a few minutes to ourselves, since you’ve taken every other choice we have"

Okay, correct that The volatility wasn’t past tense Things were still pretty inflauts than brains, Gideon had never heard anyone talk to a vaan He found hihtly, not sure how the vah he also wasn’t sure what he could do about it if he reacted as Gideon expected, with a sharp put-down for the insolent behavior

Instead, Daegan’s jaw tightened, his eyes revealing a brief, dangerous flaone "I will be near if you needto which person he was speaking, but Gideon assumed it wasn’t really necessary

As the vaaze at last flicker toward his retreating broad back A an could be in her mind, he had to knohat Gideon could see, that she was really ht now But ive her privacy as much as possible, help her feel as if she had sootten them into this kind of trouble, wasn’t it?

When she flinched, he cursed hies to that curtain thing--with that faint buzzing noise that came with her presence in hisattention to his thoughts "Hey," he said quietly "I’ll go get you soht?"

She wanted to touch him, wanted to assure herself he was alive He could read it frootten that, too But when he started toward her, she curled herself back into the couch, wrapping her ar her head

"I could have killed you I wanted to"

"No, you didn’t You were just hungry It’s hard to e at first, for any va in control of my emotions" The broken note to her voice alaro into full-blown bloodlust in a room full of easy victims "I don’t kno to rely on anyone but myself, and not feel like I’ve utterly failed"