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"I knohat I’m capable of"

"Really?" he questioned The tips of his cheeks flushed with fury "If I’d been surrounded by human officers, would you have been able to take them down? And live with yourself after that?"

Anxiety blosso themselves around me When I was alone and it was quiet, the fact I’d been so willing to take a huht about "I’m prepared to do that" My voice ca his head "Dammit, Kat, I don’t want you to experience that" Raw e isn’t hard It’s what couilt I don’t want you to deal with that Don’t you understand? I don’t want you to have this kind of life"

"But I already have this kind of life All the hoping, wishing, and good intentions in the world aren’t going to change that"

The truth appeared to infuriate himunbelievable"

"What?" My arms dropped to my sides

"Help him find Beth? How in the hell are we supposed to do that?"

I shifted froure soood, Kat We don’t kno to find her but we’ll help Awesorand "You’re such a hypocrite! You told me yesterday we’d find out what Will was up to, but you have no idea how The sa with Daedalus!" He opened his mouth, but I knew I had him "And you couldn’t lie to Dahen he asked what you’d do if they had ets to make brash and stupid decisions"

His mouth snapped shut "That’s not the point"

I cocked a brow "Laument"

Daeht to make those kinds of promises to my brother He’s not your fa smacked would’ve felt better The way I saw it, at least I talked Dawson off the cliff Sure, pro to help find Beth wasn’t ideal, but it was better than hi off like a crackhead

I tried to rein in er and disappoint froet hurt, and he orried about his brother, but his inherent, near-obsessive need to be protective didn’t excuse his douchebaggery

"Dawson is my probleether"

Dae, Kat Sorry That’s just the way it is"

The back ofto shed tears even though , then how can we really be together?" My voice cracked "Because I don’t see how that’s possible"

His eyes widened "Kat--"

I shookUnless he illing to see ile piece of china, ere doo away fro I’d done Made worse by the fact he didn’t try to stop me, because that wasn’t his style, but deep down, in a place that spoke only the truth, I hadn’t expected him to But I wanted him to I needed him to

And he didn’t

Chapter 7

As expected, school resu after an unexpected break and having all the teachers buzzing to make up for lost time Add in the fact that Daemon and I hadn’t made up after our major blowout yet and, well, Mondays always sucked

I dropped intotextbook

Carissa eyed ain "You look absolutely thrilled to be back"

"Whee," I said unenthusiastically

Sympathyher a couple of times, but she hasn’t returned any ofdown in front of Carissa

Lesa and Carissa had no idea that Adam hadn’t really died in a car accident, and we had to keep theht now" Well, besides Andrehich was so bizarre I couldn’t even think about it

Carissa sighed "I wish they had the funeral for him here I would’ve loved to pay my respects, you know?"

Apparently Luxen didn’t do funerals So we’dout of town and only falancing at Lesa "I thought o to the movies after school this week Take her mind off it"

I nodded I liked the sound of that but doubted we’d get very far with her It was also ti Dawson to society Even though I was on his brother’s poo-poo list, Dawson had stopped by yesterday and explained that Mattheas on board Probably wouldn’t happen until the o