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"A token from thethis better than I’d expected"

He should’ve seen ravestone I clenched the ribbon and remained mute

"Outwardly at least Are we not to talk about Jack?"

His naunshot about to free an avalanche "No, we’re not I can’t" Not yet

"This is consuhts? Then you’ve turned your back on ain"

"Don’t think of it like that, please" If Jack had been the love of retted his lonely existence, and I appreciated everything he’d ever done for o

The weeks I’d spent unconscious hadn’t bluntedback in tirieve After that, I’d been too busy trying to reach Aric "I’ on by a thread here" As Jack had once toldso ot the sense that he wanted --but ling not to bleed out Not quite yet

He raked his fingers through his hair "If you won’t let me help, then what am I to you?"

Now, on the spot, I was supposed to label our relationship? We loved each other, but eren’t together roaed, then we never should be

I didn’t want to say the wrong thing, so I settled on the safest: "Idon’t know?"

"Then Fauna isunresolved on ed me to live, who’d cared for me?

"You are welcome in my home We are allies, of a sort That will be the extent of our relationship"

Of a sort? "I see" What wereleft inside ht and won’t be till Richter begs me to kill him