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"What about Eloise?" Sa theirs "I mean, I know all she and Jared did was bonk on one occasion" – Luther stifled a chuckle – "but it wouldn’t be the first tiot a little jealous about my relationship with hih her hair "If I wasn’t the Heir, they wouldn’t give a shit, baby"

How many times do I have to tell you that you underestimate your oorth?

I didn’t respond She’d said this toin thinking that woh position and a pretty face to offer It didn’tanything to offer was Sas, that could only be good

"But it’s obvious that Eloise would like to put me on a drip of bleach," continued Sa all of this Could she be behind it somehow? Surely she could have made it look like an authentic complaint"

Antonio pursed his lips "It’s possible But I have the feeling that there is more to this" He paused and exhaled a heavy breath "On another note, Alora has been in touch"

Saroaned We didn’t need more complications

"She wishes to come here She heard from Bran what has happened to Evan, and she wants to see him"

"You can’t let her" I shook my head "Evan made us promise not to let her see him the way he is now"

"I thought as much, but I was not sure" After a pause, Antonio added, "She was a mess when I spoke to her by teleconference"

Luther nodded "Distraught"

I wasn’t feeling particularly syht then "Yeah, well, she had her chance to be with him and she fked it up Maybe if she hadn’t, he wouldn’t have insisted on going on the assignave me a pointed look "Jared, no one’s to blame for what happened to hihed "What occurred between Alora and Evan…As she told me in confidence, I cannot repeat the details But I will say that she had good reason to hold back from him I would not have entertained her request to see him if that was not true I care for Evan, and I do not want people around him ould wish to hurt him emotionally or physically You know that"

"She simply wants the chance to help find a way to save him," Luther said carefully, obviously very much aware I wasn’t in the besther in on this Evan made us promise"

"He made you proer "But he did not make you prohtly "That’s true"

I twisted to face her, de this"

"I know if it was the other way around and I was her"

"You would never have let me down the way she let Evan down" For a second, Sam looked surprised by my confidence in her She even looked touched by it But that didn’t stop her fro to put forward her case, just as I’d known it wouldn’t Sa I admired it even as it annoyed the shit out of me