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"Turn left," Adam instructed
"Left? How can you even see a left in this pea soup?" Gabby said irritably She could barely make out the road ten feet past the hood of the co her; the farther they got fro As if the han’s Life was co to like what she found when she turned the page
She understood nohy her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical ical thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels Because, by God, when a wouarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be
She glanced irritably at Adaerently, notit to the core
He said softly, "You aren’t falling for aze fixedly to the road ahead, Gabby clenched her jaw, incapable of speaking for several moments, her stomach a stew of emotions, a veritable pressure cooker about to blow She muttered a few choice words Grame that Do I ask you that? Have I ever asked you that? That is such a patronizing thing to say, like you’re warning , ‘Don’t fall for me, Irish, you helpless, weak little wo ‘Irish’ bit? Can’t you calltouches? Like it removes you a bit from the i with feelings? I’ll have you know, you arrogant, overbearing, thickheaded, underdisclosing, never-ask-me-any-questions-because-I-sure-as-hell-won’t-answer-them-to-you-O-y courses in college, and I understand a thing or two about men that applies to ones who aren’t even of the hu for you, which I’ action, an event that’s taking place in real tie of revealing too o on
Inhaled Puffed her bangs frothe words slowly, she said, "Why didn’t Morganna take the elixir of immortality? I need you to answer this"
The silence stretched She refused to look at him
"Because immortality," he said finally, slowly, as if each ere being forcibly pried fro him more deeply than she could possibly know, "and the immortal soul are incompatible You can’t have both"
Gabby jerked and looked at hilove box Plastic exploded as his hand went right through it Half the little door dangled for a e, then fell to the floor His lips curved in a bitter smile "Not what you expected to hear, eh?"
"You anna had taken it, she would have lost her iasped
"And Darroc thinks huht" Dark sarcaset it How? Does a person, like, have to hand it over or so them that hts theolden Once a huins to burn out, until there is nothing of it left"
Gabby blinked "I glow golden? You ave a bitter little laugh "More intensely than hts "So, do they change, the hue"
"I see" The utter lack of inflection in his reply made her deeply uneasy She suddenly had no desire to kno they changed Suspected she wouldn’t like it at all "So then, that ht about the Tuatha Dé not having souls, doesn’t it?"