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Tam worked to keep her face blank The full un, it could onlyfor her this month, not next month She should have known He wouldn’t form a connection with her in a dreaive her the opportunity to get the upper hand He ht sickened her

Thather She turned away froht back the wave of nausea over his lips--even his dream lips--on hers

A second later, a hand was on her back Cain’s "Are you okay?"

Noas showing concern for her in front of others? "Fine," she said, not ry she ith hiht now He’d had his aht back here, where she was a target for a sadistic serial killer Gee, thanks, Cain No, he didn’t love her He didn’t knohat love was If he had the faintest spark of a genuine hu and spared her froether would have been a perfect note to go out on Peaceful and painless What stood in front of her noould be anything but It didn’t ht she was safe in the demon dimension There was no place in existence safe from Jack’s reach He would find a way

No ht noith Cain and Cole and Jane all standing around, looking at her with concern

She just wished she knehy Jack was breaking his pattern There had to be a reason it was this moon that he had to have her for It couldn’t be a case ofwith us?"

"Go," Ta from the last crappy food run yourive fake food in a bag"

His eyes narrowed, but whether or not he was buying the lie, he nodded "I’ll have a talk with theure this out, and she didn’t need anybody hovering over her She was barely keeping it together now The last thing she wanted was to get the shakes and Cain be there to see it The last thing she wanted to see frory as pity And she wasn’t about to ask hiain to kill her She so was not in the ht now Plus, a part of her just wanted to kick his ass at least onehow h her bags for the moon chart She did one each year for the year ahead It contained not only the nical workings It let her know the best tiic at any tiic worked better with an extra boost

She rolled the parchs and notations had been done in a blue pencil She skimmed to the current month and her est planetary align on a full er Maybe she would have noticed if she hadn’t been having a meltdown, but she tended to do each phase of the chart separately Moon phases, then anootten to planetary align, orto kill the girl before her on a randoet his last kill on this particular date Thinking back, wasn’t the last planetary alignment like this close to when he’d killed his first? Jack was all about ical symmetry

It was too late to chase Cain down He’d be out of the di she was about to do was stop another derab ht now for the good of preternatural beings and puppies"

She shoved the scroll and the rest of her books and tools back into the bags and hid the rock Then she took the tarot cards with her back to her tent So out here alone in these caves spooked her now It was too dark and sinister, and knowing there were de She’d htly colored tent with her dee, round pillows on the ground and took the cards fro She closed her eyes and tried to focus, breathing slowly in and out She wasn’t sure reading her own cards would do her any good, despite Henry’s insistence

She needed so her coven was out of the question She’d kept the the, she could feel it Most likely the end for her

She couldn’t ask Anna to do it, either In the first place, divination wasn’t her gift Incantations were her thing It wasn’t that a witch couldn’t have ift, Ta as Tam had Either way, she couldn’t touch the cards, and you needed physical contact with the deck

Tah the curtain in her wispy, ghost-like way

"Who’s future are we looking at?" she asked, hovering

Ta to be casual, but it fell flat "Mine," Ta The cards were much the same as they’d been before she’d fled her house, whichto--he’d kind of just showed up on her doorstep--hadn’t changed her future to any great degree

There was still the death card, the tower, the lovers, and now judgment, a card that symbolized rebirth and hard and final decisions The rebirth part was hopeful, at least, but if she had to fall off a tower and die to get there, she wasn’t sure how she felt about it Henry had told her to follow her heart, and he’dlove in the caves, but he couldn’t possibly mean she was meant to be with Cain Could he? Would that be so bad?

"Well?" Anna said

"I knohat I want the cards to say and what I think Henry et myself to believe in it"

"And what is it you can’t believe in?"

Ta before she said it, how this would go "That Cain and I areshriek that had the guard de into the tent to see what the fuss was about