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But s she said to me And I feel it in my heart…I know that my sister has finally coirl wanted to see you suffer?" Isaac says for the second ti the first

He paces near thein his bedroousta and another triu on the edge of his dresser

Harry stands off to the side by the bedroom door

"But we already knew this," I say "Isaac, this isn’t new"

Isaac starts to pace heavier Histhat happens to be in his line of sight, but I doubt he actually sees any of it He appears anxious; his hands are balled gently at his sides Back and forth he walks, bringing up one ar the other elbow in his hand Then he stops and shoots a look at Harry "Do you think she could be the traitor?"

I look to and fro over the side of the dresser,to hide ht now is see Alex

"I don’t know," Harry says "She could be, but not any more or less than anyone else She sees, if she is the traitor, her ability to be believable is better than any of ours" He arches a brow and grins, "Well, except maybe for mine"

Isaac looks quickly back at me, "And you say Zia actually said ‘Praverian’ to you?" He doesn’t let me answer, but lets out a deep breath and throws his hands in the air "Great We rule one out and just gain another," he says perturbed "Another possible suspect, not to ht now Even if Alex isn’t the traitor, we can’t deal with her right now…," he looks over athis words and his eyes "Baby, I don’t et that--but you have to agree with me on this This is the worst possible tih and look down "I know," I say dejected, and then I ht But Isaac, we can’t send her away, either So what are we going to do?"

His index finger points up in the air "Bondage," he says and I look at hiht out the door

An hour later, Nathan comes back to the house with two sets of custom-made iron shackles, apparently infused with real silver They used them on Rachel when she first joined their pack

"I don’t want to knohy Xavier had these," Nathan says, handing a black duffle bag to Isaac with the shackles hidden inside "I almost asked him, but…," he holds up his hand as if to es and he sort of grits his teeth and shudders "…I dunno, bro, you ht want to wash those before you touch them"

Nathan, Harry and I follow Isaac down into the baseainst the wall in a pool of filth

Zia, Sebastian, Ca over her on my orders, for both our safety and Alex’s

"She won’t talk to us," Zia says

"I told her not to," I say

Isaac goes straight over to Alex, bypassing our conversations, and falls into a squatting position in front of her

Zia is looking at ht noe need to talk to her and figure out soet it I understand that I have no rank in this faht that by noould’ve at least earned everyone’s trust"

I’ve never seen Zia like this before Never She is truly hurt and it rips me apart, but I can’t fix it as much as I want to

"Zia--"

She puts up her hand and walks past me "I’ll be in my room," she says and rounds the corner; Sebastian looks across at me as if to say he’s sorry, and then he leaves with her

"Da ht now," Daisy says stepping up and touching my hand softly She brushes a tendril of o talk to Zia" She pauses, looks over at Alex and then she slad that your sister is here, Adria"

"So am I," Camilla says "Her aura reads in funny colors to me, but I believe she really loves you"

Not even Harry’s so-so assurances couldfrom her, soies, she seeether and as I watch them ascend the steps, I hope that Daisy can fix this stuff betweento put these shackles on your wrists and ankles," Isaac says holding the shackles in his hands "The silver in them will make you weak, maybe sick after a while, but it’s necessary--unless you would rather stay down here" He’s speaking to her in a cal voice Maybe it’s more for me than for her, but either way, I’rits her teeth I swear she ht’ve been about to spit in his face I move closer to them and crouch down beside Isaac

"It’s to be expected," he says toaway from Alex "Rachel was the saly "Yeah, I don’t think that ‘while’ has ended yet"