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Be rational, Honor You go there and she’ll kill you
The thought was barely complete when another part of her mind said, Not before I put a few holes in her
What about the others? the tiny, still-coherent part of her asked The ones you won’t find because you’re dead?
“I’ll fking well find her!” The voices went silent, overwhele so vicious, Honor hadn’t known until that moment that she could hate with that depth of fury
Two hours and a hundred ignored phone calls later, she looked down the evening-grayed straight of the e in her path “No No!”
Braking to a halt, she shoved open the door and strode out to intercept thetoward her Dressed in black, he appeared a darker piece of the falling night, but his chest felt very ainst it “Get that thing out of er when they ht you had a brain, Honor”
“Yeah, well, see expression, she stalked back to the car There were other ways to get to Jewel Wan’s showcase of a home
Except Dmitri slammed the car door shut before she could reach it “Jewel allows trained attack dogs to roauard of four who all carry substantial weaponry”
“Take your hand off the door” Sliding out her gun, she pushed the barrel into his heart hard enough to bruise “At this range,” she said, flicking back the safety, “I’ll do enough dae to put you down for hours”
“Why this one?” A quiet question that cut her like a knife, destroying the ice that had carried her this far “Valeria you handled with preternatural calm Jewel drives you to insanity”
Her un before she shot him by accident, she flicked on the safety and turned to look at the road she’d driven down only minutes before When he ca the pilot fro her That sh whisper “Not until the very end”
“Yet your hatred for her is so deep it blinds” He touched his hands to her bare forearms, and she was startled when she didn’t pull ahen she allowed hin his chest to her back, the h to her very bones
It did nothing to wipe away the shame and humiliation that had her sto her acutely exposed, vulnerable “Except for the leader and his ga with a cold that had nothing to do with the temperature, “no matter what else they did, only tried to force pleasure on me with their bite”