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"You’re going to walk away frolance "You’re not going to o?"

"Oh she’ll soon be dead, don’t doubt that Besides, if I kill her quickly, she can’t suffer" And I’d promised Dana that she would It was her fault that she hadn’t listened

"You’re doing that for Jared, aren’t you? It’s your revenge for hurting hiive him up, Joy" She needed to understand that, needed to finally accept it, because I’d really had enough of her bollocks

Joy sighed She looked…sad "And he won’t give you up For him, it’s only ever been you I hate you for it" But there was no heat or threat in her words

"I know" In her position, I wouldn’t have been having wars about her

"No matter what I did, I couldn’t make him leave you" She sed hard She still seened "Take care of hione I supposed that was Joy’s version of a truce Although, considering the e, there was every chance that she’d change her mind about it tomorrow But for now, I’d put it out of ton Time to end all this

(Jared)

Thanks to the appearance of our allies, the nuly dwindled Set on getting to Covington, the squad, Jude, Ava, Cristiano, and I had focused on getting through the nine circles of va him while our allies took care of the others Harvey and his telekinesis had been a huge help – which was exactly why a vaeted him Bollocks, as Sam would say

At that point, we’d had to instead fight our way through them The first six circles of vaet through these other et to the bastard But saidit easy

For exa balls of ice at me – and they hurt like fk Then there was another Keja as creating cracks in the ground that ide enough and deep enough for people to fall down Unfortunately, soori as covered in beetles and was throwing them at everyone; beetles that happened to bite Worse, we also had to deal with a cha their necks before they even realised soo

As an idea suddenly came to mind, I spoke to Denny I want you to find that chaet your hands on him because the son of a bitch is fast But spray hiet a clear shot

Denny nodded You got it

I badly wanted to contact Sa so could distract her – that was the last thing she’d need while she was in the h our link, ready to teleport to her if need be

As another ball of ice suddenly struck et to the little shit responsible – who bore an uncanny rese shielded by soift was similar to Butch’s, which ift was a substantial one, but its weakness lay in the simple fact that it didn’t encompass a person’s entire body The shield would only stretch as far as the sides, leaving the person’s back vulnerable Noticing that Chico was not far behind him, I ordered, Chico, shoot the Professor Snape lookalike

As the poisonous thorns embedded in his skin, ‘Snape’ cried out and burst into ashes His protector swerved around in surprise…givingat his back, satisfied by the idea that he couldn’t shield anyone else

Harvey was suddenly at ed to squeeze his way through the circles by staying in particle-for to take hier in hiht now, he doesn’t care that Covington’s yours to kill"

But ton was pretty powerful with his gift of enchanting objects – he coulddeadly The simplest object could becoour, I attacked the vampires in front of et to Stuart It was clear that the rest of the squad had noticed what Stuart had done, because they becaorous Soon Salem, Ava, and Cristiano had tackled the chameleon, David and Butch had dealt with the ice-ball-thrower, Max and Chico and Jude took out beetle boy, and Harvey and Denny helped round

Trusting the squad to tackle the others, I fought through the reed directly into the circle…just in time to see Stuart stabbed in the heart with the same knife that had earlier nicked Antonio’s throat Fuck Torn between the urge to run to Stuart’s side and the urge to attack Covington, I hesitated Covington took advantage of thatat my arm with his knife It was so unnaturally sharp that not only did it tear through my sturdy leather jacket and t-shirt, but it took away layers of skin And I knew then that this knife could probably cut through just about anything

"Which will it be, Jared: your revenge, or your squadwith malevolence and a hint ofout of him I’d say he has under athat I’ her hand on his wound At the saton, knocking hiet up, but then he froze –over hie walked over to the two varound

"No!" I yelled "Covington’s mine!"