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If it hadn’t been for Caleb hunting down Ra her no choice but to aid in his search for his sister, they wouldn’t have rescued Tori in tiifted with extraordinary powers Tori had dreaift was not as fully developed or focused as the others Her gift was h knowledge revealed, she was helpless to prevent the events or even warn anyone they were in danger, and it was a source of great torment to her Ramie could track the same kind of monster Eliza now found herself about to track But Eliza would never pit Raifted as Ramie was herself Ari had enorrew more powerful all the time and as she learned to control it, she would be an unstoppable force And GracieEliza winced again, because it wasn’t the other two she avoided like the plague Only Gracie because Gracie could readin close proximity to her because if she read Eliza’s mind, it would be all over and Eliza wouldn’t allow that to happen
Eliza ai at a drive-thru to get lunch though her heart wasn’t into eating, but she had to keep her strength up She couldn’t be hen she faced off against Tho unopened in the bag in the passenger seat, she pulled into her parking spot and when she saw the vehicle next to her and theagainst the hood, herdoing here?
Her lunch forgotten, she climbed out of her car and sla on her face To her further annoyance, Wade only s with amuse that acknowledging hi here, she clutched her keys and stalked around to the front of her vehicle and started to walk by hi" expression could do the talking for her
To her utter shock, as she was nearly past hi her in her tracks She narrowed her eyes, pasting her most ferocious snarl on her lips, and rounded furiously on hi? Take your hand off ratitude to the man who saved your life?" he drawled
She wanted to scream No one and she meant no one kne to push her buttons like this e button Anytime he opened his ant pull of his lips, all that alpha superiority and sle button she had was pushed sirowled at hi snarl and a throaty growl of frustration She was te incredibly childish and decidedly un-Eliza like, such as stomp her foot, pull her hair out by the roots or throw the mother of all hissy fits God, she didn’t have time for this bullshit today! They had successfully--and mutually--avoided each other ever since the incident he’d just referred to, one that Eliza would prefer to just forget all together Saved her life, her ass! If he hadn’t been there, and if she hadn’t been so goddaet shot then she would have never nearly taken a fatal bullet One that he’d taken for her instead, and it chapped her ass that apparently he thought she should be on her knees in gratitude for taking a bullet that was his own godda just fine, so what the hell was he doing at her apart in the sa for one And on those few occasions, Sterling had goaded her mercilessly First he’d called her a coward and accused her of hiding fro" a dance with her at the reception, and since she had just so happened to have been giving Zack and Gracie her ishes in preparation of fleeing the way too happy, gushy,more than the "just racefully--or ungracefully--get out of it Gracie had seehted and had told Eliza that of course she just had to dance with Wade, after all they were two of her roaned, knowing she’d been royally set up by the bastard He’d planned it meticulously and had approached her when he damn well knew she couldn’t tell hi with a few other choice words that would have singed the hair of most people and embarrassed the radiant bride It hadn’t, however, stopped her fro him the entire time they danced But he hadn’t responded to her sarcaset a rise out of hi a back every layer of skin on her To add insult to injury, he’d held her far closer than necessary, lued to each other and practically fucking on the dance floor The only way she’dat least a dozen different scenarios in which she separated his balls from his anatomy
In the end, she’d fled as if the hounds of hell were after her, and dahter had followed her the entire way out As had his last words: "Little coward" So her and the second tiht
And now as they stood in an apparent standoff, her glaring holes through hies of bodily dis their dance were evendidn’t even atterowl His eyes twinkled and then his lips broadened into an honest-to-goodness real s just how furious she ith hie to his features He never s that ca on his ht, actually s smile that extended all the way up to his eyes Sweet Jesus but it roaned at that betraying thought Delicious? She needed her head examined But she couldn’t stop her perusal to save her life