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Tiny balls of ice forht You don’t know her I’h"

I shook ainst what she was insinuating "No No way" I stood on shaky legs "I don’t knohat your problem is or what happened to you, but Daeaze sharpened as she eyed s aren’t the way they used to be, Katy The sooner you get with the prograht now, you’re his weak link That’s all you are to hiround "The only reason you’re alive right now is because of him And not because he loves you, because that boat sailed the big old ocean blue the moment we opened our eyes Thank God"

I flinched at her words, and the ice grew bigger, spreading intoher head to the side "Ever since you ca has beenhi to us anyure out how to handle"

I sucked in a breath that didn’t see it hard to s, and I toldwas definitely wrong with her, because Daemon didn’t just loveto be with e that The coas s, but it had been real to me--to us But her wordsthey still cut worse than any blade could ever inflict

Dee’s lashes lowered as her features pinched tight "So?"

I opened my mouth, but the ball of emotion cut me off for a moment, and when I spoke, my voice was hoarse "What do you wantreally, but I need to take you to see hiht and airy, and for a moment, it sounded like the Dee I knew "Not him"

When she didn’t elaborate and I didn’t ue in frustration and then popped forward Grabbing ed me out of the bedrooed, ied pace Bare-foot and exhausted and beyond confused, I was feeling , she’d nearly pulledfierce

"I can walk You don’t have to dragthat she simply let me "I can" The frahtdark and rusty smeared across it

My stomach roiled

"You can just stand there?" Her eyes narrowed on me "If you don’t ht break your neck It’s three levels Someone will heal you Or maybe we’ll just leave you like that, alive but unable--"

"I get your point," I snapped back at her, taking a deep breath so I didn’t atterinning

For some reason, it was in that irl who had stood in the kitchen with hetti with this nasty creature before me, that I remembered Archer "What happened to?" I trailed off suddenly, and probably rightfully, wary of bringing up anything that led back to who reot away" She started down the steps

I stared at her back,overtime

"I’m serious," she called "I will throw you down these damn steps"

I took a second to entertain the idea of drop-kicking her in the back of the head The only thing that stopped me was the fact that I was convinced she had to have an alien insect attached to her soed her personality, and her attitude wasn’t her fault

Heading down the stairs, I willedcorrectly as I took inhouse, the kind that opulence would be envious of There were a lot of bedroo, I could see down into the foyer, lit by a crystal chandelier Like, real crystals

But down below, I could also see Luxen, all in human forms None of them looked familiar to me At least these Luxen had discovered the usefulness of clothing, but as I scanned them, I noticed there weren’t any sets of three other than the Blacks Each one of thehtly I was clenching my hands The Luxen looked at me the same way Dee had A few pushed off the wall as alked past, heads tilting in that weird way that reue; all of theh who knehat their real age was

What I’d seen in thelike Daemon and Dee had explained to ht-haired woman by the leather chair sneered and looked like she wanted to ju oak table, straddle my shoulders, and rip off h ht I’d be sick