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"Prove it"

He would Or he’d die trying

I am not a monster And he wouldn’t let the darkness in him break free He wouldn’t hurt those he loved

He’d sacrifice himself first

CHAPTER TWENTY

Az raced around the graves He turned to the left His body shook and his heart seeh his chest

He pushed forith a furious blast of speed and saw the body The bastard’s claere out Killing close

But it hadn’t been the claws that killed her in Az’s vision

Tanner was on the ground, covered in blood, and notBut the shifter wasn’t dead Not yet

No one was

Not Yet

Az froze and stared at Jade So beautiful His frantic heartbeat began to slow The shaking left his hands

The center of his focus narrowed just to her Brandt had his rowl, "He never was as powerful as me"

My cue Az took a deep breath She won’t die "No," Az said quietly, and Jade’s desperate gaze flew to his "But I a stare

You’re dying tonight

Az lifted the gun and pointed it at Brandt "Let her go"

Brandt’s eyes narrowed, and heto shoot her" Brandt’s voice ainst her captor

Such a fighter She was the strongest woer

To be better

I will be He wouldn’t be the monster from the vision He’d be the man that she needed hirasp "You did this," he told her, voice snarling "You should’ve just been happy with me"