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“Yes,” Honor said Amos, she’d realized, wasn’t the e he’d put her in

Getting out of the glea machine, she waited for Dmitri to join her and then she led the was stickered with Do Not Enter signs, but she strode forward and through to an internal door that led to a cement-floored base in her stomach, “that he planned to do up the place, turn it into an old-fashioned salon where only the privileged would gather, but first he had to ht appetites” Appetites that ot the walls painted, much less replaced theover the doorknob “I’ll go first”

“I need to—”

“Face your demons” Dmitri brushed her hair off her face with unexpected tenderness “That doesn’tinto that face that still bore reht, she realized that he needed to do this, too, to protect her She couldn’t pretend his protectiveness, his care, was unwelcoether” She touched her hand to his “I won’t hide from any part of this, not even behind your broad shoulders”

A long, taut pause before he nodded and opened the door that led down into her own personal hellhole But as she navigated the steps, D and brightand then, as she stepped into the pitch-black roo months, by pride

I survived this

The thought had barely passed through hercaers clawed, eyes glowing red

She began to shoot, yelling, “No!” when Ded past her “I have it!”

The creature kept co in the enclosed space Finally it lay wheezing on the floor Taking out her flashlight, she aimed the beam at whatever it was that had un off it

“You” A bubbling, blood-filled word

He no longer looked anything like the photos Dance buried under anier The skin had retracted fros; his face was hollow, falling into itself As was his body under the tattered remains of his shirt, his broken ribs not yet completely fused, other parts of his torso pulverized with bullet wounds

“I had you,” A to D to look down at Aotten himself here after Jiana carved hith to go out to feed, even as his body cannibalized itself to heal his massive injuries

A pitiful creature