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"I’lad you came!" squealed Ava as she wrapped her are, and Imani were also there It was certainly a surprise to see the latter two "And I’lad you’re healed! When I heard you’d been bitten and then saw you in that cell, I was in tears"

Yeah, I re Ava so distressed Touched, I srateful s one ard and shaky

"She and Imani didn’t want to coed theirls are the best things since sliced bread"

Yes, it did look as though the squad was detere and Imani would find it incredibly hard to resist them since Butch and Stuart weren’t the type to take ‘no’ for an answer

"My darlin’ girl," drawled Fletcher, pulling"I swear I had palpations when I found out you were tainted" He pulled back and pointed hard at ain! My heart couldn’t take it a second ti his eyes at his boyfriend’s dramatics, Norm pushed him aside and kissed my cheek "I couldlike babies e heard what had happened to you"

"You should know better than to think I’d ever let her die," interrupted Jared, snorting Both Fletcher and Norht of him Oh for the love of all that was holy!

When Jared smiled at so over He flashedbitch and keeping Alora so busy that she couldn’t leave until I’d talked to her"

"I was hoping that Jared would talk so her here?"

Evan tugged Alora close "How could I not?" She blushed, leaning into hi a throat clear, I swerved to see Cristiano This ti smirk I was surprised at hoard he see if not terribly sure of hiood to see you…healed"

"Thanks," I said si smirk to surface It didn’t colad

"It was a shock hearing that you’d been bitten, seeing you hurt I suppose I’ve always thought of you as invincible after the amount of duels I witnessed you have for Victor" Gruffly, he added, "Just beup I was expecting Jared to call hi like that But although Jared slid an aresture, he didn’t curse at Cristiano or order hi Cristiano even returned the nod They were practicing civility? What had I ? I asked Jared

He kissed my temple Nope I’ve just decided to let him live For now

Jude ca "I, um, just wanted to ask…would it be so bad if I slit Eloise’s throat?" She was totally serious Jude did love her knife and would latch onto any excuse to use it

Before I could answer, Chico ca her away "Jude, remember that talk we had about…" His voice faded as he moved away and the music overrode his words I wasn’t sure if I wanted to knohat that ‘talk’ had been about