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"Just re," she says and walks away fros start to appear…different…you should think twice before going under again"

I leave on this day wanting nothing more than to take Aramei with me and hide her somewhere in the mountains hly terrified of and loyal to Trajan that I know as kind and caring as she is towards me, she would sell o back too under and no matter what I see, I’ve decided not to tell the truth at all any I already know to right now

"Evangeline is his ertips across ainst his chest "She’s been around since I was a child"

I feel his lips press into ainst the headboard

"She’s petrified of him," I say "And who can blame her?"

"I know," Isaac says softly

"But what about what she said?" I add, becoid orry thein Araerous"

Isaac leans around ure it all out soon, but babe, o any at the bedrooht, "…I have to find out what she’s trying to tell u Ara in response, but wraps his arms around me from behind

"Isaac?"

"Yeah, babe?" He moves a hand up and brushes a lock of hair behind my ear

"I don’t think Alex is safe here" I turn h I can’t see his face I only feel his breath on the side of o into it and it worries me"

I lean up and away from his chest and turn around halfway to face him "Do you think he knows she’s here?"

Isaac traces the tip of his index finger down the bridge of my nose and then rests it upon my lips "He probably does," he answers and I tense up instantly "But if he wanted her dead, she would already be"

He watches aze of his eyes My heart haently parting them with his own "Don’t worry about Alex," he says between kisses, "Don’t worry about anything Not right now" He teases ue into my mouth He lifts my body around on his lap to face him; my bare knees burrow into the pillows behind his back

The kiss breaks, but his mouth is still so close to mine that I can taste the mintiness of his breath "Did you lock the door?"

"Yes," I whisper into his lips and feel ain Isaac peels offrabs both of my wrists in one hand and pins them above my head I look up into his ravenous eyes and know that I better not squirhter and my wrists will hurt

But I do squirm because that’s exactly what I want hi and numb, and I can hardly keep them open His free hand slides down the soft curvature ofchill buth of my body with it He kisseshis way to ic of his o of my hands and sinks further below my stomach

And I do exactly what he tells me to do because I don’t want hi under the fabric of s

I shudder out a moan before he even touches ht out of Isaac’s bed with the sheet wrapped aroundis co from the other side of the door Isaac lifts up in the bed, an intolerant expression lies on his face

"What?" he shouts at the door

"It’s me, bro," Nathan says from the hallway "Get up Put your Spiderman boxers on and let’s hit the pond!"

I look over at Isaac, eyes as wide as plates Then I glance at the bedside clock It’s ten o’clock at night "Is he serious?" I hiss and look back at the door "Are you serious, Nate?!"

Isaac juht add are not Spidero," he says with the jerk of his head "Get dressed"

A spat of air bursts froether in confusion

"I’ll explain it on the way"

"But what about swi trunks?" I say while at the sa into o back to sleep

"We’re not going swirabs my hand and walksto cover my boobs with my free hand because I didn’t really have time to put on the bra before ht air

"We did so," Isaac says as we dash across the front yard and toward the path through the trees

I’ up, but still the hu to trip in the darkness and fall on