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Evan didn’t take the bait Instead, he switched his attention back to Alora His face softened "Can we talk?"

Her smile obbly "Sure" When he held out a hand and she took it, he flashed her a sood things, because if anyone deserved happiness, it was Evan

Satisfied, Sam smiled at me "I have to admit I wasn’t sure if he’d come to see her Whatever you said to hiood"

I slipped my arm around her shoulders "They’ll sort it out" Or, at least, I hoped they would I looked at Antonio "How did the huone?"

Antonio’sto Quentin, the whole thing was quite huht themselves very clever To have the captives taken from under their very noses like that…it was a wake-up call; it told the with and it was best to leave well alone"

"It’s doubtful that they will give up on trying to catch and contain some of our kind," said Sebastian "But they will have received our"They were certainly very fast as they packed up and left, or so I’m told"

It would have been fun to watch "And all the tainted vampires?"

"Quentin assures me that every last one has been destroyed There were no other casualties, so all the untainted vampires returned home safely It was only Sam as hurt"

For a second, as I recalled the moment she’d been bitten, the cocktail of dark emotions came back to me I contracted my arm around her, incredibly thankful that she was okay

Collins twisted his lips as he looked at her "At least your recklessness only got yourself hurt this tiled as ainst the wall

"Hurt? She could have fking died! And that was because she put everyone else’s safety before her own That’s the kind of person she is Me? Not so h to care more about her safety than anyone else’s Do you knohat thatlike this, I’ll push back Knohat else?" I placed my face close to his; he froze and his eyes widened "You won’t even see it co"

"You cannot threaten me," he said shakily