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"What The Hell" Eidolon’s voice startled her, and she spun to find hiuy who’s been stalking you?" "Yeah And I’ames" Covertly, Sin dashed away her leftover tears as she bent to tug the arrow out of the snow and snap the gold object off the twine "It’s soer over the broken, zigzagged edge "There’s writing on the back She who… blood… carries… spread plague… battle breaks… seal’d" Eidolon frowned, and Sin returned the look "What? Why do you look like you licked a Mondevilin piss pod?"
"It sounds vaguely faure it out later," Con said "We need to get Sin soh to make me nervous"
Eidolon’s expression took on a sympathetic cast "Yeah, I’et Sin to UG--"
"That won’t be necessary," Sin interrupted "I’er from my assassins anymore" "Why not?" Eidolon asked
"Because," she said quietly, "I’ back to the den"
"Like hell you are," Con and Eidolon said silared at them both in turn Maybe if her eyes weren’t swollen and her face daht have looked a little fiercer And Con wouldn’t feel like such a piece of shit, because he knew dale tear was on his shoulders
"This is o back to the den I’vebrother "You don’t need to go back there, Sin We’ll find a way to reed with that "They can’t touch you at the hospital Go with your brothers" "I a back there It’s my job"
"Bullshit" Gold flecks kicked up in the black of Eidolon’s eyes, and Con braced hi Sin around "You will not--"
"E," Con interrupted "Could you give us a second?"
Though Eidolon’s expression was as frosty as the breeze that stirred up the snow around them, he nodded "I’ll take Luc and Kar to UG You two can ht, Sin huffed "Good cop, bad cop doesn’t work on e ood cop Second, I know I’e your mind But at least tell me the truth" He wanted the truth because he did plan on changing her mind "I just did"
"Tell ot that stubborn set to her mouth, the one that o away "I don’t knohat you’re talking about" "Don’t do this," he gritted out "You’ve ress You knoith your brothers" Pink splotched her cheeks, and she averted her gaze Kicked at the snow "You don’t understand"
"Then o back to the den, we still don’t knohat’s up with the horse guy or why someone besides your assassins wants you dead So you should be at the hospital with people who care about you right now Not in your assassin den, all alone and hiding from your brothers"
The color in her cheeks deepened, and she lifted her angry gaze to hi"
"Maybe I just don’t want to be treated like a child by the like one!" he shouted Her head snapped back as if he’d slapped her, and he pressed his advantage, stepping into her "You don’t want to be owned, possessed, chained, but what the hell do you think you’re doing to yourself? You’re going back to your den to be free? How are you free if you can’t go anywhere without worrying about being killed by your own assassins? You’re still a slave, Sin But this ti"
Her dark stare flared with fury "I told you why I took the job--" "Yeah, yeah You took it to spare Idess" He kneas being a dick, was once again doing a repeat of what he’d done at Rivesta’s, but da a family And if she went back to the den and shut herself off, she’d close down again, hter than ever this time "But you knohat? I think you’d have taken it anyway You couldn’t even deal with your feelings, so hoould you have dealt with the real world if you were out in it instead of living in a cave where you had a great excuse to not hang out with your family?"
Her eyes went steely "God, you’re such an ahole sometimes"
She’d called him that before Had called hiht "Don’t do it, Sin Just… don’t" "I think," she said, in a soft voice he hadn’t expected, "you’re forgetting that I couldn’t get out of h her hair, which glinted with bluish highlights in the sunlight that squeezed between the treetops "This is pointless I either go to the hospital and be a prisoner there, with o to my den, where at least I’le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>