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"I take it you didn’t tell Evan in the beginning"

"No I just felt so ashaullible as to Bind with soht"

I couldn’t really vilify her for Binding with so them for a short ti

"I understand," said Sah we hadn’t been together long"

"Yes, and it would have continued to feel right for ory had really been the person that he pretended to be But he’s a far cry from it He’s violent and he’s abusive, and I didn’t want Evan to be responsible for keeping ave him a bunch of excuses as to why I couldn’t be with him, but they never deterred him I don’t think I’ve ever ly Her face fell as she continued "When he askedceremony to stay here with hiave ine hoell you would have taken it if you found out that Sam was Bound to someone else"

I would have wanted to hunt down and kill the fker…but to do that would have been to kill Sa of the bond Fuck, no wonder Evan’s head had been in a shitty place "So you didn’t reject him?"

"No It was actually the other way around I asked if he could handle being with someone who he could never Bind with, someone ould always be tied to soh I despised that somebody else He didn’t answer an to trail down her face and she brushed them aith her thu, he didn’t cooodbye"

Sa breath "Alora, I’m so sorry"

"Yeah,to want me – I don’t blame him In his position, I’ to know that he was Bound to someone else, to know that I’d never have that same bond with him But I still want to help hi If you were me, Sam, if Jared had made it clear that he didn’t want you, could you still have sat back and ignored the fact that he was dying?"

Sam snorted "I would have done whatever I could to help, whether he wanted ht have ss had worked out – or, more specifically, how they hadn’t worked out – for my brother I mean, really, could the situation be anyheavily "Where is Gregory?"

Alora dabbed her wet cheeks with the tissue that Antonio handed to her "Canada"

"He doesn’t try to contact you?"

She shook her head "He’s too scared of Bran Please don’t ask "