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"Whawhat?" Felicity whirled around and gaped at me When I just watched her, she threw her hands into the air "Ohbefore?"

I ushered her the rest of the way inside, and once ere both in, I shut the door at my back "I didn’t knohat to say He wasdifferent"

"Different?" she repeated, frowning

"He wasn’t at all concerned about catching up on old tiainst the Bainbridge family"

"The" She shook her head "Excuse me?"

"He tried to recruit me into his cause Said they all needed to pay for what they did to Mercy What they did to me For how they burned down our house" When her eyebrows lifted at that, I had to ask, "Was that fire arson?"

"II" she sputtered, before shaking her head "There were rumors, of course People came and questioned all of us, butno, I don’t…I don’t think they ever decided it was arson" Concern filled her eyes "Why? Do you think one of the Bainbridges did it? That they killed half your family? Bentley?"

I studied her a second before shaking hteen-year-old boy filled with tooup reasons to justify his resent her relief But then a new hint of caution filled her gaze "And you’re not filled with that same hatred?"

If I’d neverwhat love was, I ht’ve been filled with s to hold on to than ani to the love we’d once shared would never let me stoop to Rocket’s bitter level

"No," was all I could tell her There was dark shit in me, but I wasn’t filled with hatred

She sent me a small smile and nodded "Good" When she turned toward her room, I said, "You need to stay away frolanced back at me as if I’d lost lared at you He thinks you’re one of the hisafter you"