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Scarlet scowled "Sorry if the people around here don’t exactly seem like the trustworthy types"

"They’re not," he said "But they do know me Watch You’ll see"

He tried to slip around her but Scarlet turned with hi her nails into his skin "You’re not leaving until you--" She paused, looking past Wolf at the crowd by the platfor up and down Scarlet’s body

AHe raised his eyebrohen he saw he’d caught Wolf’s and Scarlet’s attention "Looks like the wolf has found hinified by speakers soe behind hi at Scarlet He ice the size and a foot taller than the one who had spoken and entirely bald His hair had been replaced with ts of bear’s teeth i jaws into his scalp

"Think I’ll be taking that one ho-boy’s pretty face!"

The audience laughed at the taunts,to one another Someone nearby asked Wolf if he was afraid to test his luck

Unruffled, Wolf turned back to Scarlet "He’s undefeated," he said in an explanatory tone "But so am I"

Annoyed that he could think for a second she cared, Scarlet sucked in a furious breath "I already commed the police and they’ll be here any randmother is, you can leave, you can even warn your friends if you want I won’t shoot you and I won’t tell the police about you Just--just tell me where she is Please"

He peered down at her, cal rowdiness of the crowd They’d started chanting soh Scarlet’s ears She thought for a second he was cru to tell her, and she would keep her word long enough to find her grandet her away from these monsters who had taken her

Then she would have his head Once her grandma was safe at home, she would track him down, and whoever else had helped him, and make the bitterness on her face, because he reached for her hand and gently pried up her fingers On gut instinct she dug the gun into his ribs, though she knew she wasn’t going to shoot Not without answers

He didn’t seem worried Maybe he knew it too

"I believe your father did see a tattoo like mine" His head dipped toward her "But it wasn’t un hang li crowd part for him The onlookers were inti one another So bids

He may have been undefeated, but it seemed clear that most bets had been placed on his opponent

She squeezed the gun until the textured metal of the handle left an imprint on her palm

A tattoo liketo confuse her, she deterile as an acrobat The coincidence was too iven him a chance, but the police would be here soon and take hiet her answers, one way or the other

Shaking with frustration, she tucked the gun back into her waistband The thru tonow

Hunter Hunter Hunter

Dizzy frolanced toward the building’s enorroeeds and wheat stalks lit by theat her like a jealous girlfriend Scarlet returned the look before shifting her attention to the stage Lingering at the back of the crowd, she pulled up her hood again, drawing her face beneath its shadows

The crowd surged forward, carrying Scarlet closer to the fight

Hunter had ripped off his shirt, displaying a mass of raw muscle as he rattled the crowd The row of teeth elinted as he bowled froe to the other

Wolf was tall, but he looked like a child next to Hunter Nevertheless, he was all coance with one foot up on the ropes, practically lounging

Hunter ignored hi Cursing Working the crowd into a frenzy

The one who handed ut twisted She needed Wolf She needed answers But in thathiht of rage, Wolf’s gaze flickered toward her The s amusement dropped away

Scarlet hoped it showed on her face just who she was rooting for

A holograph flickered to life, hanging over the announcer’s head The words slowly rotated and flickered