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Jack answered for her "Obviously, your lass But she did need the thing that allowed the Infinityglass to transfer abilities"

I made it as far as one knee and one foot on the floor "I don’t believe for one second that Lily would help you find it"

"Lily didn’t know Still doesn’t We made her think it was a simple location test, so I didn’t even have to wipe her memory Tell me" Jack leaned over conspiratorially "Does Emerson like you? I hope she does She’s already so fractured If she’s for you from her mind will take her one step closer to where I need her"

His eyes held a sick elation I wondered how so so s Jack had done to Eed her time line, erased her memories Her words ca your life to a , would he rob her of the happiness she had now? Would she end up mindless and empty, too?

Jack was too pleased with the sound of his own voice to shut up for long "Dune will be harder He loves you, and that just ives us trouble, we’ll take care of theh I was still on the floor, I lost my equilibrium I put my palms flat as my vision blurred When it cleared, I stared up at my mother Not an ounce of emotion crossed her face

"How is it that you haven’t given Jack ‘trouble’?" I asked "Why hasn’t he taken your ht me how, back ere both in Meretted the choice

"Too bad she didn’t learn the trick" I gestured to the woman beside Jack "Whoever she is"

"I’ll introduce you" He tookrude Shake hands with Hallie"

Cat stared at Jack for a long rab for my hand

My very bones vibrated the second she touchedas if an electrical fire burned under ular piece of o," I screamed over the sound of the wind in ot nowhere "Let htened on her already skeletal face I was draining her energy I felt it flowing through me To Jack His hand was still on my arm

All the noise and activity dissipated in a rush I hit the ground again

Cat followed

A mere husk of the woh ertips on her throat, searching She looked like an addict who’d taken things too far Desperate, starving, ruined

Dead

Jack held a spinning purple sphere in his hands It gave off a crazy, glowing light, and crackled with electricity, just as I had thirty seconds ago I’d seen Poe with so similar Exotic matter

"It worked," Jack crowed, mesmerized "She transferred Cat’s ability toor not, she’d overdosed on Jack Landers and his ability to take away pain He had been her illicit drug

I looked at the dead body beside me and wondered if he was about to make me his next addict

Dune

I hadn’t underesti, and tee and willful The closer I got to its banks, thecontrol, the second, exhaling

The desire to see what I could do was powerful, flowing through my veins faster than er