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Daes just wouldn’t keep going He stopped, bending at the waist as a wave of pain that felt so real slaut Not his brother He couldn’t really co is normal only to have your entire life destroyed in seconds

“Please, no,” Dee whispered “No, no, no”

He knew he needed to pull it together for his sister, but a cyclone was building inside him All he could think about was the day in the kitchen Hi Dawson—that couldn’t have been the last ti him No—no way

Daemon racked his brain When was the last ti a bowl of cereal Froot Loops Laughing Happy

Last tiaze, he saw Dee was blurred Either she was losing hold on herself or he was Had he ever cried before? He couldn’t reme her before she fell, but then they both hit the floor, holding each other Dae out an unearthly roar that surely broke the sound barrier, shaking the house again Windows rattled and then blew out this tih the wake like distant applause

And then there were Dee’s sobs Heart-rending sobs racked her slender body and shook hi in and out of her natural for back His brother wasn’t going to walk through that door ever again There’d be no hts with Dee over who ate the last of the ice creauirl

The huirl…

Dawson had lit her up like a beacon—that had led the Aruht to Dawson That was the only explanation The Rocks still protected them in Moorefield The Arum had to have seen Bethany…

Never in his life had he hated hue rippled through hih the bond, her whispered denials kept coiven his own life at that e so to get that girl killed Why hadn’t he said he loved him? No Instead he’d said that Misery cleaved his soul, sinking in deep like a hot, serrated knife

His head fell to his sister’s shoulder, and he squeezed his eyes shut Tears still seeped through, scalding hot against his noing cheeks Light flickered all around the living rooe shadows of the two forether

Daas dead because of hih, hadn’t stopped the relationship before it got out of hand He was dead because of a huh to stop hihter—the last of his faain would he let a huain

Daemon wouldn’t lose his sister, no matter what he had to do to keep her safe