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A devious half smile lit Rafe’s face "Then you’d be clean and safe and war at Violet with blue eyes that were anything but contrite "How boring is that?"

Violet shook her head "It’s not boring, it’s" She struggled, trying to find the right words, trying to find a way towhatever he wanted "It’s about doing the right thing About not breaking the law"

From the other side of Rafe, Krystal snickered, and Violet turned to glare at her "I don’t see how this is funny," she practically choked out "Besides, I thought you’d be on my side here I mean, look at us, we’re in jail!"

"We’re not in jail" Rafe leaned back on the bench, stretching his arms across the top of it His stance was far too casual, which only infuriated Violet even o back to your safe, suburban little life"

Violet was about to tell hio--when she felt so it suddenly hard for her to breathe Hard to blink

It took several heartbeats before she realized as happening as she sat there, openhtened with each second that ticked by, constricting until she felt as if her lungs ht implode

And then she saw hi in plain sight

Unlike the three of the arrested He was surrounded by three uniforh the station doors He didn’t bother struggling It would have been futile, she supposed His hands had been cuffed, and all three of thehim were armed, as was nearly every other officer in the station

Tiripped her Instinctively, she wrapped her ar out his warmth She could hear her own pulse as it established an eerie backdrop to the rhyth to hi, so intertwined that it was aluish one from the next

Violet was stunned that the boy in front of her could be responsible for carrying so much death He couldn’t possibly beas a , that she was confusedshe had to be sensing i from the officers too Surely these werethose reminders on their skin

But then she looked at the boyreally looked at hierous Yet Violet knew better She knew that sometimes evil was born