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"I count as a success, then?" I asked

"You’re as close as I could get"

"Did you ever love me?" I asked God, it hurt, because I knew the answer "Or was I just a means to an end?"

"People define love in their oays," Mother said "Some people say love is about duty Or loyalty You owe ressed is completely your choice"

"No, you h manipulation or emotional blackmail

"Have you considered I have motives?"

The pull of the power she had overme in my seat I decided then and there, no matter how oing to dictate one more second

"Yourabout you, and I don’t want to"

Dune

"You’re wrong about that," Teague said to Hallie "I think there’s plenty you want to know aboutoff Hallie’s frame like an empty husk Now it disappeared and was replaced by determination

"No, there isn’t" Hallie squeezed ht now"

She leaned back in her seat and i away the key It was fiendishly iue stood and turned her back on Hallie

I had tried to check out eht noanted to get ugly Anger would’ve satisfiedfield My weapon would be intelligence rather than eue turned around, I realized how hter resembled each other Remarkably so I kne beautiful Hallie would be twenty years froet her there

"I don’t think so You aren’t part of this," Teague demurred "I know your weaknesses, Dune I know you can smell the water from here, and that it calls to you I even knohat it says"

I felt Hallie tense beside h to stay silent I stood and stepped forward, coue’s personal space "I don’t need a translator Tell oal? Power? Or is it just the idea of conquering tiue looked frohter"

"She doesn’t want to talk to you I’ here, so if there’s soue’s eyes were a deeper hazel, but she and her daughter shared the same slender build and tall fraht, and they had perfect bee-stung lips But where Hallie’s face was still soft, Teague’s was nothing but hard angles Less in her appearance, more in her countenance Other than that, they were alike

Exactly alike

The truth sneaked in and blindsided ue "Do you have the transue offered a bemused smile in response "You and Hallie haven’t discussed my ability?"

"She told me you’re a human clock You always knohat ti Half ue didn’t use it very much "If you were around soet old pretty fast Itto a child, but eventually the novelty would wear off They’d stop asking for de it"

The deep lines around herup speciene," I asked, "why didn’t you just use your own?"

"Use ue crossed her arms over her chest "I--"