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“Honor”

“Evert broke my jaw once” The pretty woman sat down in one of the outdoor chairs placed around a square wooden table “For fun”

Grabbing a seat opposite, Honor focused on the uglyon Shae’s otherwise unble “I was only seventy when I met him”

Honor’s spine twitched at the realization that Shae, petite and with those bruised huht?” she said, forcing herself to remain relaxed Shae was no threat, her power so ible—the reason her body hadn’t yet been able to heal the dae caused by Evert’s vicious slap

“Yes” The other wo on the terry cloth “Stupid, but hey, we’re all stupid once in a while” A penetrating glance “Dmitri, huh? No offense, but talk about stupid”

Yes, it was Probably the worstaasn’t an option Not anymore If it had ever been “You sound very certain we’re involved”

“Puh-leeze, as h her hair, either agitated by the events of thestill

So young, Honor thought, so vulnerable, and it was a curious thought to have about a woman who had more than half a century on her But then, ti Dmitri would’ve been a force to be reckoned with soon after his Making Shae would always be the quarry, rather than the hunter

Eternity, Honor thought, was a long time to spend as a victim “What do you know about Tommy?”

“Prick friend of Evert’s He’s four hundred years old and still has that s you naked—and not in a nice way” The vahter around herself “Evert wasn’t lying about the cabin They took me there once” Her silence was heavy with secrets too terrible to be voiced

Neither of theone another, their day long begun

“I’ht chorus, fine lines pinching out froe Depraved, finding pleasure only in the hu of others” A look of unhidden concern “Even Dmitrihe’s barely on this side of the line, you know that, don’t you?”

“Yes” He was no innocent, would never be one “Tell me more about Tommy”