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I shot hiet there by myself"

"Nah Consider me your chaperone to ue down his throat again" He looked over his shoulder "Roth, go with Connor on patrol Zach, you take care ofsoulful brother Make sure he doesn’t follow after us Looks like he wants to"

"Wait a minute," Connor said "Bishop’s your brother?"

As Kraven dragged me away, I craned uished at the thought of leaving him like this His blue eyes burned into ether there in his gaze

Mix in an extra helping of guilt, and that was exactly how I felt, too

I wanted to cry, butI wanted to close them and try to shut out every me on the sidewalk, lost and confused and unable to find the searchlights, I’d helped hiht Less than a week to go froot a taste of angel cake," Kraven said after a fewEach step away from Bishop felt heavy and forced "Was it worth it?"

"I didn’t rip on me and put some space between us We’d exited the run-down area of town and entered a neighborhood with tall trees, ht and day in the space of a couple of blocks

"Right You’re just an innocent teenager looking for love in all the wrong places"

Kraven had a truly abefore You could have warned hiot the fuzzy end of the lollipop by being the one to enter the city without being shielded The crazy easily could have come from that What am I, psychic? That’s your job, sweetness"

"Will he be all right?"

"From your first kiss? Yeah He’ll recover Pretty sure it would have taken a lot longer for you to suck the whole thing out As for the future…I don’t know He’s a survivor Kind of like a cockroach Just when you think he’s finally dead, he’ll pop right back up again and start flapping his wings"

All I could do was concentrate on putting one foot in front of the other My arhtly overin front of me My throat felt so thick it was nearly impossible to s "So what about me?"

"Good question What about you?"

"Are you really walkingme to my doom?"