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"I can’t betray the Saxons and the Circle," he murmured into the top of my head "But I can’t--I won’t--betray you, either I proe of a threshold we’d been dancing around since we s mutually exclusive?" I whispered

"I hope not," he said "I don’t think so"

I didn’t want to want hih his hair again, to touch a new cut on his cheek I didn’t want to forgive him, but I did want to, so badly

"You didn’t leave ertip around a button on his shirt, nothis eyes "You didn’t leave me and save yourself on Mr Es easier You didn’t leave h you knew I’d be ers paused in stroking uided it was, Jack had done what he’d done to protect -of-war for his loyalty between the Saxons--his only faled ered under his tuxedo jacket, pal under ertips

He drew in a sharp breath that sent a flutter through aze skimmed the curves of my silver Prada dress It really was the color of his eyes Moonlight and stored, my dress spread out around me on the balcony I wipedbreeze dried the in now Jack slipped out of his tuxedo jacket and draped it around my shoulders before he sat down, too

"Did you tellelse? Mr E?"

"I told hireed to get soet hi for your ht lifted off olden light shoinkled again against the clouds

"Am I like hi them

Jack kicked a pebble with the toe of his boot "If anything, it’s like two sides of the same coin," he said "You both have this sparkle in your eyes But his isI don’t know Darker? Yours is light"

I sed back the luet I was --"

"It’s okay," I said

I wondered if Jack s worse Or whether he had ht ood friend and that was all I wondered if he was thinking aboutabout his hands on me