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Wonderful Fabulous They could--

"I told him to just kill her To touch her, take her soul, and coet about her"

Jade frowned up at him That was some cold-blooded shit

Az’s rin on his face "Bastion told you I wasn’t the good guy And you should knowangels can’t lie"

Oh, hell She tried to jerk away frohter

"I kno Keenan felt," Az grated "Because if Bastion came to me and told me to kill you, I’d destroy him"

She froze

"How?"

Now Jade was lost Hohat?

"What did you do to htened on her "I never cared for a human, but I can’t let anyone hurt you" The blue flashed back again in his eyes, as if he were fighting so Someone "Even myself"

In the next moment, Jade found herself on the back of the ine

"Hold on!"

She locked her arht as she could The motorcycle rocked forith a blast of power that she didn’t think was entirely natural

But then, the unnatural was becolanced back at the old cabin The woods were so twisted around it now that the vines and vegetation appeared to s the place And, for an instant, she could have sworn she saw thin, ghostly ies that stared after her with fury

Before vanishing in the light