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It was Griffin whose loyalty I suspected now

Was it possible she’d been the one responsible for betraying the Blackwater recruiters all those years ago as aorder? Was anyone really that narcissistic and power-hungry?

Cold dread settled heavily in

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

IN A PLACE LIKE BLACKWATER, WHERE NO ONE really slept, there was always activity So by the time we’d reached the heart of the camp, the darkness that stretched far into the desert had been replaced by strategically placed floodlights that ht never even existed

When we reached the cafeteria, Nyla dragged s your friend out, you’ll join them and she’ll take you back to your tent" I assuirl who’d shuttled Natty away after our showers

"Don’t worry, I’ll work this out" Siuard er I promise"

I was just about to tell hio, not quite yet, when Griffin’s voice pierced iven me "You shouldn’tGriffin I felt like a kid caught with my hand in the cookie jar I hoped this didn’t mean I’d lose the sed from the tent maze, her attention not directed on hly hacked "I knehen I couldn’t find her"--she indicated me when she said that--"that he’d be involved" This tihtest nod of her head toward Simon "But I never suspected you," she reprierous when she said it The kind of dangerous that oose bumps

"Griffin, don’t blame her This was all my idea" Si it wouldn’t matter what he said because Nyla had betrayed Griffin--a real betrayal, not the made-up kind she’d accused Willow of, either There was no way she was letting Nyla off the hook for this

But then sos ed, at least for h that did it

I had to reach for Sis were unreliable, like I was standing on stilts I had yet to ht with Nyla and Sievery tiny hair on my body stand at full alert

My heart stopped--like stop-stopped--and I waited for it to start again, the sah, for what seemed like forever and a day And when I finally did, when I heard it, my heart not only started to beat once more, it pounded

Thud-thud, thud-thud, thud-thudbeating so freaking hard I alasped