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Once they were past us, Max gripped ain and pulledme toward the less traveled paths of the alleyways

I should have been frightened to be alone with him, away froer But I wasn’t afraid

"What was that all about?"

"What hat all about?" He frowned, nearly dragginguntil ere far from the foot traffic Finally he slowed

"Why wouldn’t you look at thoseto take another step

He raised an eyebrow "I don’t knohat you’re talking about"

"You know exactly what I’h his hair "Can we just go? Claude and Zafir are going to notice that I’ve lost the for us soon"

The hair on the back of my neck prickled at the mention of the other two one out of his way to avoid the guards we’d just passed "Not until you answer otten the best of you, I think Let it go"

He was lying I didn’t kno I knew, but he was lyi Bght ste"Young and I wanted the truth "Why should I? Is there soerous about you? Are you so?"

He scowled "You’re the only one who’s broken the law You’re the one who refused to look ahen I spoke to you in--" He stopped hiht "You’re the one who needs to be more careful Especially if you actually understood what I said"

My heart raced and er ht suspect so

He knew

I shouldn’t have trusted hi me away from my friends and off the croays at the center of the city

Sudden

ly Max was my enemy I turned away fro; I only knew that I couldn’t risk seeing his two enorain either So instead I , barren alleyway