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Scra backward, I put as much distance between Daniel’s next kick andcoldly "Finally decided to play, huh? Took you long enough"

Coughing, I held my bruised belly and forced--he wanted

Bastard

"I’ll kill you," I whispered, wincing with every breath

He chuckled,taller, I locked eyes with him My ribs bellowed from his kick, but steel entered h his dark hair, s his soul suffocated hiood bones and sex appeal Topile of excrement

"I’d like to see you try" He closed the distance between us one boot at a ti"

"You won’t be able to get close enough to do it" He winked s compared to me"

I bared my teeth "It’ll happen when you least expect it"

"It will never happen" He flexed his muscles "I’m invincible"

"You’re human"

And that makes you killable

Every word filled me with power Conviction and confidence shoved aside rief

Jethro and Kes were dead But it wasn’t the end for me I had a purpose I would complete that purpose

"Want to knohy I came back? Why I didn’t run or hide?" The snow in my veins made its way into my heart "I came back to ruin you" Spit pooled in my mouth If I’d been braver, I would’ve spat it all over his face "I cae him, so help me, God Kestrel, too And enerations of Weaver wo of the end

The Debt Inheritance was null and void--Cut had seen to that It was tiuish a dynasty of torture Every second e acceptance Happiness wasn’t my life path--but destruction was I would be that instruloith insanity "You ca I came back to end this" Darkness settled around ht