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"Who are they?" she asked, hoping they hadn’t noticed her voice cracking

"That, my little munchkin is one of the reasons you and I were placed on this earth," he said as he nudged her to keepabout?" she whispered harshly as she felt her heart pound in her chest

Whatever the two of them had planned for her was about to happen and she was helpless to stop it

Why the hell had she agreed to that o that she alking along the deserted street to a reed to instead of just this

"Please don’t do this," she pleaded, close to tears

"It will be fine," Chris said fire

Tears streaoing and seeing what they had planned for her "Please," she said, putting everything into that one word

Chris was silent and for a h to him, but the second his hand landed on the small of her back she knew she’d failed "This is for your own good, Munchkin You’ll understand soon enough," he said, pushing her forward

"Chris,-" Ephrai her wonder if she could change his o

"This is my decision," he said firmly "It’s the only way"

"Fine," Ephrai heavily "Just make sure she comes home in one piece or Madison will kick both of our asses"

"Not a proble her forhen she tried to stop

She dug her heels in hard, fighting him as he easilyto twist around and shove his hands away fro her through thick brush that seemed to s them whole before she found herself shoved into a fire lit clearing filled with men in various states of undress

All thestartled at first and then furious

"Fucking Sentinels," one of thereally pissed

Sentinels? That was the third time she’d heard that word in the last twentyfour hours When she’d been attacked this s to really give that word ht and when Chris had said it earlier she’d been annoyed and pissed to be receiving the cult speech Now they had her full attention

She quickly processed everything she found out today, which wasn’t a hell of a lot, and came to a painfully obvious conclusion This was just another little ploy to scare the hell out of her so that she’d give up her work

All of their vague bullshit nowafter these , because they’d already knohere they were going to h the woods they never paused or acted unsure about where they were going