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They also did a da hell out of her First thisshe could describe s who bit her and supposedly burst into fla job by sucking her blood, she thought with a shudder

She’d bet that whole bursting into fla was an optical illusion, not that she’d fallen for it a hundred percent since she’d been pretty sure she’d been drugged, and still was, but thatThere was no they’d been unable to drug her again since she’d refused to drink or eat anything they’d given her and she’d checked her candy bar really well before she’d eaten it, plus two of thee bites out of it and she really didn’t think they’d drug the had been pretty bad and they’d scared the hell out of her, but now she was prepared for whatever bullshit story they’d throw her way She wondered what they’d try this time Demons? Witches?

Goblins? Frankenstein, Caper the Friendly Ghost, she thought with an amused snort that earned a curious frown from Chris If they really wanted to scare her they should have had her parents show up Nothing on earth would have scared her et the hell away from them

"Whatever you do, don’t move away from my side,"

Chris stressed softly

"Yeah, sure whatever," she said with a lazy wave of her hand for hiet the show on the road

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Chris demanded softly as he kept his eyes on the men around them, who back towards the woods while others were lea," she said around a loud yawn

They weren’t going to kill her, she’d realized They were going through too much trouble to scare her with elaborate hoaxes to si to kill her they’d at least threaten her by now, but they hadn’t, at least not yet They were still playing gao Instead she was back to feeling exhausted, hungry, and pissed They’d save themselves so much tirao to hell

"What the hell is he?" one of the men demanded as Ephrai, causing theaway to move closer to the fire

Almost as one, all of the nad s,her roll her eyes "Givewhen the theatrics would end

"He’s not human!" one of theher sigh heavily and wonder just how far they illing to take this

"We haven’t done anything wrong, Sentinel," ain front of the rest of the htly so he could keep a wary eye on Ephraim who looked ready to kill someone "We know the rules, Sentinel You can’t touch us as long as we follow your Council’s rules"

"You’re not following ain that littlebeneath his eye No doubt thetold her the man didn’t enjoy drama of any sort

"We don’t have to listen to you," another man yelled, only to be silenced when the man in front of her held up his hand

"The ed to h her The ood at it She idly wondered if he’d given any thought to acting professionally With his bad boy good looks and "take no shit" attitude he’d probably be a hit, she thought