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He stepped to et you?"

"I don’t think so"

He peeled off the shirt despite y, as though gravity had leached it out of me After a detailed exa heat seared through to er rise within hilared at him, the Dealer stepped closer Lowered his voice "Where is your fiancé?"

"At the bar," I said, exasperated

After ripping the towel out of et a clean one and find soes in the kitchen"

"I need to callto cover up a cries?"

I looked down at my arm as the Dealer – who refused to tell me his name – returned with another towel and soushed freely from a wound on my arm, and I suddenly remembered the pain I’d felt while underneath the dead man’s body

"It bit me," I said, my shock complete

Before today, the Twelve had just been aMaking it onto this plane was quite another The fact that they had done both, that they were here to finish what they’d started, was slowly sinking in

He took a closer look at the wound, dabbed it with a bandage to check the flow of blood, then turned me around to face the shower

"This wasn’t an accident," I said to him as he undid my bra and pushed the straps over er and Will as he turned me around and started to unbutton ers stopped and his gaze, as dark as his black hair, turned incredulous "How do you know?" he asked after a long "

"And you believed her?"

"Yes"

He took a step back and braced an ar not to fall down