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As john sat next to corain for two reasons The sex scene wasfor word about Qhuinn and Lash

Daht back and said he hadn&039;t heard froet out the car keys

John let the phone rest on his thigh Qhuinn couldn&039;t possibly have done so-himself -in-the-bathrooh, was capable of anything John had never met the male, but he&039;d heard the stories from Blay¡ªand seen the evidence in that black eye Qhuinn had sported the night after his transition

John felt his foot tapping and stopped it by putting his palm on his knee Superstitious son of a bitch that he was, he kept thinking about that old wives&039; tale that said bad neays came in threes If Lash died, there would be two to follow

He thought of the Brothers out on the streets with lessersAnd Qhuinn in the night sonancy

He checked his phone again and o," Cormia said, "I&039;m happy to be here on my own"

He started to shake his head, and she stopped hi his forearm "Take care of whatever it is It&039;s obvious you&039;ve had a difficult evening I would ask you to talk about it, but I don&039;t think you would"

Just because it was on his o back and not put the shoes on

"I&039;m sorry?"

Well, shit, now he had to explain or he looked like an idiot Soht before it went down,If I hadn&039;t changed into theone before He hesitated, thinking that he and his buddies would have been gone before Lash got out of the shower what happened went down

Cormia looked at him for a moment "Would you like to knohat I believe?"

When he nodded, she said, "If it hadn&039;t been the shoes, you would have dallied wherever you were for another reason It would have been so on Or a conversation Or a door that wouldn&039;t open As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is ih onealong those lines back in the training center&039;s office Except

It&039;shappened because ofanother?" When John shook his head, she asked, "So how is it your fault?"

He couldn&039;t go into the details No way Just was My friend did so horrible to save my reputation

"But that was his choice as a male of worth" Cormia squeezed his forearm "Do not mourn his free will Instead, ask yourself what you may do to help him now"

I feel so damn powerless

"That&039;s your perception Not reality," she said quietly "Go and think The path will come to you I know it"

Her quiet faith in him was all the more powerful because it was in her face, not just her words And it was exactly what he needed

You are really cool, he typed

Corloith pleasure "Thank you, sire"

Just John, please

He handed her the re When she caught on quickly, he wasn&039;t surprised She was just like him Her silences didn&039;t mean she wasn&039;t smart

He bowed to her, which felt a little weird but see to do, and then he beat feet out of there On his way down the stairs to the second floor, he texted Blay It had been about two hours at this point since they&039;d last heard fro As he was likely to have stuff with hi wouldn&039;t be an option, so he couldn&039;t have gone far because he didn&039;t have a car Unless he&039;d used one of the household&039;s doggen to take hih the double doors that opened to the hall of statues and thought Cor to help Qhuinn as he grappled with having been kicked out of his fae whether Lash lived or died

And however aard he felt about what his buddies had heard, the two of them were more important than those words that had been thrown out with cruelty in that locker room

Just as he hit the stairs, his phone went off with a text It was froood

Qhuinn walked along the side of the road, his duffel slapping his ass as he put one foot in front of the other Up ahead, a stripe of lightning snaked down out of the sky and illu their trunks into what looked like a line of thick-shouldered thugs The thunder that folloas not so far off in the distance and there was ozone in the air He had a feeling he was about to get drenched

And he was At first, the storrew srown-up ones had juuys had followed only after it was safe

The water hitting his nylon duffelsound, and the hair on the top of his head started to flatten out He took noto win He didn&039;t have an umbrella and wasn&039;t about to stand under an oak tree for shelter

Extra-crispy was so not a look

It was about ten minutes after the rain started that the car pulled up behind hihts hit his back and cast his shadow on the paveine&039;s whine dropped on the approach

Blay&039;d come after hi his eyes with his forearhts, andhim of episodes of Scooby-Doo

"Blay, could you diht went dark and four car doors opened, with no interior light co on

Qhuinn slowly dropped his duffel to the ground These werehe was unar