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Siot the chance to find out I told Tho, that there was no way Willoas passing inforht Division"

"How could you be so sure? What if it really was Willoas working on the inside?"

"It wasn’t Thom and I already suspected this recruiter nah the ranks He was power-hungry like Griffin, only he had Franco’s ear" He grimaced "I went to Thom about Willow, but he refused to back ainst Griffin I think that’s when I realized she’d gotten to hi to do whatever it took to convince Thoht: that Willoas the traitor"

I wasn’t quite sure I understood "Are you saying they had a thing, Griffin and Thoh so that he’d stopped thinking with his head I uy; it hat ood recruiter in the first place I just didn’t think Thom would be sosusceptible"

"And what about you?" I asked, hating the note of jealousy I heard in my own voice "Were you susceptible too?"

"Me? Nah I uys who fell for her She had this way of looking at you with those brown eyes of hers like she’d known you forever, even though she’d barely just met you It was like the two of you had these private secrets that no one else in the world were in on And, holy shit, when she smiled"--Simon squeezed his eyes closed--"kinda sideways, like it accidentally slipped out, you couldn’t help but smile back at her"

I had to wonder if he had been a little susceptible, even if he wasn’t willing to adirls like her She called therinned then "It was pretty ive, and that’s what she would’ve said about Griff She was one of those fast girls you were supposed to watch out for The kind arned about in church on Sundays Also, why I kinda hated church I liked girls eren’t buttoned-up and afraid to speak their ers pushed their way between ether He sht Thom and I were" I expected him to say "brothers," just like Griffin had, but instead he finished with "partners," which carried way less punch "I thought he’d have my back when push cah we both knew she was lying"

"So what happened?"

"I figured Griffin didn’t tell you everything" He shrugged "Back then I was the council’s favorite to take over as leader if anything happened to Franco So when Franco called ato deliberate over Willow’s fate, I was there When the decision was handed down that Willoas set to be excoainst it" In the dark, Simon’s eyes met mine and he let out a slow breath "It doesn’t sound so bad, except it was practically a death sentence for Willow We still had a very real inforhters were sure to find out where Willoas being sent I couldn’t let Willow be captured by those bastards just because Griffin didn’t like her" His fingers tightened around ht, we left Willow and I snuck out of camp I didn’t tell anyone what I planned to do, not even Thoirls like Griffin--wanton was the wrong word after all Siht have been off the mark when he said she wasn’t crazy

Griffin’s brain was scras commercial:

This is your brain

This is your brain after being transported 200your DNA messed with by aliens

I would probably use the words stone-cold crazy for someone like her

"Where’s Franco now?"

His eyebrows bunched together "That’s the thing A fewteaain About that same tiuilty, then where’d he go?" His lips tightened as he shook his head "Griffin had ed to wor before she was voted in as leader of the caaze clouded over "I don’t know the whole story We never talked again after Willow and I took off, at least not until thate showed up at Silent Creek But h a convoluted coet around Indirectly, I heard he couldn’t stouess, I’d say he finally figured out Griff had been using hiain, I peeled my hand away froht us like that, and I was sure she was starting to get the wrong iretted leaving with Willow, or questioned her loyalty But I already knew his answer, because Willoas as trustworthy as they came