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He nods nervously looking doard, coiling his pudgy fingers within his lap, his foot steadily tapping against the floor

"A-Are"The now isn’t i to be by the time this is all over is what you should be worried about"

"Is that what you want?" he says "For hters they have sisters? I-I don’t understand what this has to do with anything I-I don’t see why you’d kidnap theure it out," she says with a s "You have plenty of time to think about it"

Woodard’s bushy brows bunch in his forehead

"That’s it?" he asks, as confused as any of us are "That’s all you wanted to know? I thought you were going to try forcing information about the rest of us--"

"I don’t need you to do that," she says with confidence "The others will tell me what I want to know, all on their own"

Confidence just may be the kink in Nora’s ar out of most of us Dorian, maybe, because Tessa’s life is on the line and clearly he still loves his ex-wife Me--it’s a very real possibility that she’ll get me to talk because of Dina, and because if it’s just personal secrets that she wants and not inforive up irl? Sure I have--I lived with dozens of the to be ashah it is a little eive Niklas and Dorian that kind of aet under ? Well, theft is sort of soe in the field often But Victor already knows this Niklas and Dorian and Fredrik and anyone else in our Order, not so much, because I’ve stolen from all of them to keep tabs on their personal lives for Victor OK, now that h credit

Now I’ out of him It scares me because I want Dina to live and if she dies, the last person in the world I can handle being the cause of it, is Victor If she dies because of hiive hi about it to myself Niklas, I feel is exactly how he told her he is before he walked out of that roo book So, I don’t knohat she expects to get out of hiet at all

Fredrik?

Oh, how sad it’s going to be for this woman who has truly--pardon the cliché--bitten off wayinformation from the lips like blood from a vein is Fredrik’s domain, one I doubt she wants to tread upon

"That was too easy," Dorian speaks up

Niklas laughs lightly under his breath "Yeah well look who’s on the stand as the first witness Victor, are you sure you fully tested this guy before giving hi?"

Victor nods

"James Woodard is trustworthy," he says "He may be skittish, but don’t let that fool you"

Nora s to confession next?" she says

I don’t want to go This bitch ainst hts

"Are you sure?" Victor says

I nod