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So daht didn’t lead us too many blocks away from the abandoned church It was practically deserted in this neighborhood, compared to where we’d found Roth on the busy don sidewalk in the shopping district Abandoned, eood chunk of Trinity was like this now, as if any life that had existed before had died off, leaving a shadowy ghost town behind

The light led us to another boy, not that I was all that surprised about his gender He was an inch or two shorter than Bishop, which still meant he was at least six feet tall, with cocoa-colored skin and dark eyes Attractive, of course, no big surprise there, either He wore ill-fitting khaki pants and a green button-down shirt His black hair was so short it was nearly shaved

He had his ar the sidewalk, headed slowly toward don

"That’s him?" Bishop said

The sound of his smooth, deep voice sank into ive him, even while memories of his betrayal still swirled all aroundeht now All they could do was distract h Why would they tell Kraven there’s supposed to be four of you and then send another one?"

"No idea" He didn’t sound happy about that

I had a flash of what happened last ti asome innocent kid "Just make sure to check him first Don’t just, you know, do it"

"I will You can leave now" He paused "If you want to"

I eyed hi and I drew my coat closer to block the chill Since eren’t exactly walking hand in hand, I felt the cold night all too well "And miss all the excitement?"

He kept his tense attention on the kid "I know you don’t like this part"

"Bishop, the day I start to like witnessing so forward to"

He shook his head "You’ve been so brave about all of this"

That made me snort humorlessly "That’s not exactly a word I’d use to describe aze and uess it had already recovered fro broken Fickle heart

"I just wish I understood how you can do this," he said

He had no idea what the truth really was--that I was a…a nexus, like Natalie said Since I wasn’t ready to share that at the

Bishop pulledand turned to face us

"Are you following me?" he asked