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And when one of the other elina’s arht in front of him, I turned asped at first, and then dropped to his knees, writhing and clutching his neck, until he stopped Falling still And silent

Angelina blinked, staring back at me, and I wanted to rush to her To take her inwould be fine That I was going tookay

The other

toward her, while the other uilty No less willing to asps as I tightenedwith hI held therasp, suffocating the elina," I rasped, notany of theht at asp, "Charlie? What are you doing? What have you done?"

I looked down then, at the men who littered the floor at my sister’s feet None of them moved None of them breathed--they were all dead And I was the one who’d killed them

I turned to Brooklynn, and saw that she wasn’t alone With her were Aron and Niko and Zafir Max was there too All of the back at me with the same wary expressions, and I couldn’t bla at: a murderer

"I told you she was in here," I said to Zafir "I told you Sabara wasn’t dead"

But it didn’t elina was safe

I spun around again, own She just stood there, looking as dazed as the others "Angelina," I whispered again, taking a step closer to her

She ran thenbut not to me

She veered as far fromto Brooklynn instead She wrapped her arlance my way