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My birthdays came and went and I was always so excited because each year it was the very best thing that could possibly be happening toOLDER We marked the occasion each year with my favorite meal of thick Irish stew and soda bread and crea each other bodacious stories about all the thrilling things ould one day do when I was free

She hung a calendar on the wall behind the new sofa she bought to replace the couch I’d broken, and I watched with shining eyes as she crossed off the weeks andeach black slash took

Though she was gone all day, she left me well cared for with the TV on, lots of blankets and pillows, and all ain, and bedpans nearby

When she cato do when I was OLDER and she could let ht one day the door would side and we’d get busy doing all those things we’dto make up for LOST TIME I heard that word in all capitals, too, colored the dreary shade of dirty snow

But I think whenever you put other people in a cage--any kind of cage--you start to think of them as less real

JADA

Jada sat in Ryodan’s office, her ars outstretched, boots kicked up on the desk, body thru for so suits In truth, it wasn’t a suit in her deck of cards at all, it was incarceration in a high security prison Yet here she sat and would continue to sit for days, if it o, instructing them to return the spear with all haste while he watched the Unseelie princess, and the instant the Book summoned her, he’d sift back and alert the so to the needs of his clan

She and Barrons had been analyzing strategies to get the spear back to Mac when he abruptly stiffened, as if listening to sootten lucky, he said after aof the Sinsar Dubh Re her back here to contain her with the stones Easier than trying to get four of us in and out of Mallucé’s

Jada protested, But if she’s in control, she’s fighting it And winning You can’t shut her away now She needs tiotten the Book has the ability to manipulate precisely that element? I suspect Cruce’s prediction of its moves is correct With the spear, the Sinsar Dubh will hunt the queen If it gains her power, too, it will be unstoppable It’s now or never, Jada

With every ounce of her being, Jada wanted to disagree She despised cages of any kind and putting Mac in one was the last thing she wanted to do Once so that item back further and further until, draped with cobwebs and dust, it was forgotten

Never And you bloody well know it, Barrons growled

She said, I’ll su off her words

Don’t say his na it summons him I don’t want that Fae fuck anywhere near Mac He has far tooto lose We do this with my men and no one else