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"Whererewe?" hewith salve and gauze "I was hoping you’d stay knocked out awhile longer The peace and quiet was a pleasant change"

Despite her tone, Scarlet could sense the relief rolling off the girl as she dropped a tube of salve onto thewith another tube of salve and a scalpel "We need to cut out your ID chips and destroy the to a seated position, the ht for a otten where she’d coed to get the loon on board, huh? Maybe I can find a cage for him in one of these bins I’d hate for him to kill us in our sleep after all that"

Scarlet scowled, unraveling a strip of gauze "He’s not an ani on the claw marks on the side of Wolf’s face

"Are you sure?"

"I hate to agree with Thorne," said Cinder, "I ht We don’t know that he’s on our side"

Scarlet pressed her lips and pulled out another strip of tape "You’ll see when he wakes up He’s not…" She hesitated, and realized a moment later that she couldn’t even convince herself that he was on their side

"Well," said thea hole in his pants, he dabbed the oint her hair out of her face, Scarlet ripped open Wolf’s shirt and slathered the ashes across his abdo the salve, he propped hio bay’s wall His hand landed on the shotgun "Where did this come from?"

"Scarlet found it in one of the crates," said Cinder, facing the netscreen on the wall "Screen, on"

The screen showed a shaking i full speed toward the ca, and then static A male anchorman behind a desk replaced the video, his face pale "This is footage fed to us froht, and sources have confirmed that e"

Scarlet bent over to cut the ID chip from Wolf’s wrist She noticed he already had a scar there, as though it hadn’t been very long ago when the ID chip had been put in hied to stay in their ho to a live feed fro an address"

A groan drew everyone’s attention to Wolf Froun and level the barrel at Wolf’s chest

Scarlet set aside the scalpel and both their ID chips and tilted Wolf’s face toward her "Are you all right?"

He lifted bleary eyes to her, before suddenly wrenching away and rolling onto his side, vo onto the ship’s floor Scarlet winced

"Sorry," said Cinder "That’s probably a side effect of the drugs"

Thorne gagged "Aces, I’ at his lips, Wolf collapsed again onto his back, cringing with every movement He furrowed his brow, then squinted up at Scarlet His eyes had returned to their norer "You’re alive"

She tucked a curl behind her ear, baffled at her own relief This was the man who had handed her over to those monsters She should have hated him, but all she could think of was his desperation when he’d kissed her on the train, when he’d begged her not to go looking for her grandmother "Thanks to you"

Thorne scoffed "Thanks to him?"

Wolf tried to look at Thorne, but couldn’t twist his neck enough "Where are we?"

"You’re aboard a cargo ship orbiting Earth," said Cinder "Sorry about the whole tranquilizer thing I thought you were going to eat her"

"I thought I was too" His expression darkened as he took in Cinder’sfor you"

Thorne quirked an eyebrow "Was that supposed tohim on board?"

"He’s better now," Scarlet said "Aren’t you?"

He shook his head "You shouldn’t have brought er You should have left me down there You should have killed un

"Don’t be ridiculous," said Scarlet "They did this to you It’s not your fault"