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Logan shut the door behind them and looked around the room

Helen loved this space more than any other in the house She’d decorated it herself using a palette of cool ocean blues and greens There was no clutter because she hadn’t lived here long enough to collect it, and the blond oak furniture was all streamlined and understated She’d used the insurance money she’d collected when her last house burned down to buy a few high-quality pieces and she loved every one of them She really hoped that the unexplainable fires that haunted her all her life wouldn’t destroy this piece of solace she loved so an

"As I’ll ever be," said Drake "Helen?"

She was never going to be ready for whatever they were going to do, but the sooner it was done, the sooner she would be rid of theet this over with"

Drake sat on the edge of her bed, tugging her down beside hilide of his fingers She couldn’t handle his gentleness, not when she kne things would end between them

She covered his hand to stop his caress, but instead, she only led and streamers of what she could only describe as electricity inding their way down her body, through her chest and stoh her toes

Drake offered her a reassuring smile "It’ll be okay I pro of tears He had no idea what he was going to do to her She could see it in his face, in the earnestness of his expression He’d never hurt her on purpose He was going to watch her die, but she couldn’t believe he would be the one to kill her

Logan reached up and placed an elegant, long-fingered hand on Drake’s head, then did the sa she couldn’t na Miss Mabel into her seat

Tho to do with Miss Mabel She kept eyeing the front door like she thought shehe wanted was for her to hurt herself doing soht Are you hungry?" he asked her, hoping to help her relax and quit thinking about escape

"I suppose I aed through her fridge?"

"I’ht in her head"

Tho none of the Synestryn had found them here If Zach had spilled so much as one drop of blood on the driveway, this place would be swar for?" she asked hi"

Fidgeting? It sounded like so a two-year-old would do Tho sure eren’t followed"

"By who with humans was such a pain in the ass He would so ht was supposed to be a pri with deured out why yet And Thomas didn’t particularly care He was nearly out of time and he wanted to make sure he made the most of what he had left

The wind shifted outside and he felt the last leaf on his lifee of an ancient tree stamped into his flesh--sway over the skin on his chest One leaf left Once it was gone, his soul would die and his ability to distinguish right froer care about the people he loved He’d no longer love

Part of hirief he carried for Kevin kept gnawing at hi tired of hurting Tired of watching his brothers die As soon as they found Kevin’s sword, he was going to leave the Theronai before he could hurt any of theest, baddest nest of Synestryn he could and dive in headfirst

But before he could do that, he had to make sure they found Kevin’s sword, and before they could do that, they had to make sure Helen and Miss Mabel were safe His vow to protect hu to hold on to his patience, despite the pain and grief gnawing at his insides "This is really a lot o have a sandwich or soet all snippy withht look like he was around thirty, but he’d passed his five hundredth birthday a few years ago "No, ma’am No snippy here Coot her settled behind her walker She was so frail, he worried about hurting her every tiot close Every move he made with her was carefully controlled, slow and et into the kitchen, and Thoan and Drake would take, but the longer they did, the et

Thomas sat Miss Mabel at the kitchen table and peeked inside Helen’s fridge She had several stacks of sealed trays with clear lids Inside each one was a full h it would probably take three or four of them to fill him up It looked like more than two dozen trays and each of the tape Boy, this chick was organized "What do you want? Chicken and noodles, beef Stroganoff, or spaghetti with meatballs?"

"We can’t eat those," she said "Those are tomorrow’s erator door "There’s no way the two of you could eat all this food in one day"

"Not just us Helen takes food all over town, bringing it to people likeit on their own"

"So she brings you food?"

"Every day And we go out at least once a week I’d like to go ht out, which you boys cole not to sruntled "Sorry about that I didn’t oing on back there with Helen, but I don’t like it one bit"

"Don’t worry about theood care of her"

Miss Mabel snorted "All you men have done sinceyou is push us around You made Lexi run away, for heaven’s sake I don’t trust you one bit I don’t care how handsome you are"

"You think I’ tone made her blush