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"Hoould you feel if you were dead and someone had control over you?" I shook my head with irritation "Just because their dead doesn’t hosts wavered like a gloomy optical illusion as they hovered all around the roo my previous comment

I bit my lip while my eyes traveled over the translucent bodies I stopped on another fe and her hands clasped in front of her

"You," I said as I got up from the floor and walked with caution towards her The woman lifted her head slow The area where her eyes would be was nothing but round circles I fought to keep eye contact with so so freaky I didn’t want to appear weak around the spirits whothem

"What’s your name?" I asked to the spirit

"Rosella" Her voice was soft and came out as a whisper

"Ask her who killed her," Dorian said behindback at Rosella, I asked, "Who killed you?"

The vials of vaerous, so I didn’t expect her answer toto me They were ones who killedour blood I didn’t knohy Dorian wanted me to ask the question

"Alonzo Moretti," Rosella answered

My body froze, along with the blood in my veins Out of all the naiven name I wasn’t stupid, I knew Aiden killed before, but to see his victi room so sad and alone was a whole other ballpark--one that put things into perspective The Aiden I kneasn’t a murderous monster The Aiden, or Alonzo, Rosella ined Aiden sinking his fangs into her neck and ending her life long before it should have ended I i her, and , I wondered if she was just a woman on the street he’d attacked, or if he wooed her with his charained her trust, and then killed her Either way it didn’t matter, she was dead andat her felt like an omen Would I end up like her soer for my blood and drain me? This was a crack in the otherwise happy world I’d painted around Aiden The big question ould the crack cause it to co down around me?

"You knew, didn’t you?" I whirled around and faced Dorian I turned all of the eer and focused it on Dorian "Did you think I didn’t know he’s killed before or was this some sick joke, some macabre way to knock sense into me? What did you and Holly think? If I saw her, I’d come to my senses and leave him?" I waited for Dorian to answer, but when he didn’t speak right away rew "Tellout towards me but when I flinched, he dropped his ar When you summoned the spirits, I did not knoho killed the Aiden, Iyou see the type of person you’re dating Or she thought it would be funny for you to sic Rosella on Aiden I’ht you should know should we end up using the spirits against the vampires," Dorian paused for a few uard I’ry with me--"

"I’ood person, Gwen And seeing one of the wo with him You’re mad at yourself If it o It probably happened when he just turned New vaarded each other in silence for what seeht about all of the people Aiden ift to catch killers, and noas dating one Aidento erase the fact he used to be

Ignoring Dorian, I turned to the spirits and said, "Leave"