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Matthew sat on the edge of the recliner, looking like he needed soood"

"No shit," Ash snapped Upon a closer look, she wasn’t the picture perfect ice princess today Her hair hung limply around her face, and she wore sweats I didn’t think I’d ever seen her in sweats "That’s another dead DOD Officer How many does that make it? Two?"

Well, actually, that made it number four, but they didn’t need to know that

She tucked her hair back, her chipped fingernails pressing into her cheeks "They’re going to wonder where they are, you know? People don’t disappear"

"People disappear all the ti around, his words sucking the oxygen froht sapphire eyes slid to him Well, everyone pretty much looked at Dawson, since that was the first tiathered She shook her head but wisely remained quiet

"What about the ca, turning it over Warone now"

Dawson turned around "He atching this house"

"We know," Dae closer to me

His brother tilted his head to the side and when he spoke, his voice was empty "Does ityou--her All of us"

Another shudder rolled through ot to me

"But next time, we need to kind of…oh, I don’t know, talk first and then throw people through s later" Daemon crossed his arms "Can we try that?"

"And we can just let killers go?" Dee said, voice shaking as her eyes darkened, flashing with fury "Because that’s apparently what should happen I mean, that Officer could’ve killed one of us, and you would have just let hio"

Oh, no My sto forward "I know--"

"Don’t ‘I know, Dee’ aze moved to me, and it felt like a kick in the stoo"

Daemon shook his head as he unfolded his arh death"

Dee reacted as though Dae her arms around her waist for protection

"Ada back against the couch "More deaths He was such a pacifist"

"Too bad we can’t ask him how he really feels about it, isn’t it?" Dee’s spine stiffened, as though she was forcing herself to bite out her next words "He’s dead"

Apologies bubbled up in my throat, but before they could break free, Andrew spoke "Not only did you guys let Blake go, you lied to us Froestured at me "I don’t expect loyalty But you? Dae from us And Adam died"

I whipped around "Adam’s death isn’t Daemon’s fault Don’t put that on him"

"Kat--"

"Then whose is it?" Dee’s gaze met mine "Yours?"

I sucked in a sharp breath "Yeah, it is"

Daeid beside ht, guys, that’s enough Fighting and casting bla anyone"

"Ither eyes

I blinked back tears and sat on the edge of the table, frustrated that I was even close to crying because I didn’t own the right to those tears Not like they did Squeezing h the soft ht noe need to get along," Mattheent on "All of us, because we have lost too oing after Beth"

Everyone in the rooed in his expression No e at once

Daemon’s voice boomed over the chaos "Absolutely not, Dawson--no way"

"It’s too dangerous" Dee stood, clasping her hands together "You’ll get captured, and I won’t survive that Not again"

Dawson’s expression re his friends or faet her back Sorry"

It looked like a dumbfounded stick had smacked Ash in the face I probably looked the sa insane"

Dawson shrugged

Matthew leaned forward "Dawson, I knoe all know, that Beth et her Not until we knoe’re dealing with"