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I squeezed e ofActually a lot of sos, but one at a time Tam told me that A’Zahra Nuru was his teacher I only ran into her a time or two last week, but she seemed to be a nice, rational sort of lady Brave, noble, and all that Definitely not a dark e"

"Primari Nuru was only one of Tam’s teachers," Mychael told e now Unfortunately, others were more influential in his early education But when he left the queen’s service, Taht "He knew she could help him"

Mychael nodded "He’s not the first that she’s helped She does good work"

Black-ht I’d heard it all

I didn’t want to tell Mychael about Darshan thinking that Tam was in that alley to capture me for the Khrynsani, but he needed to know Mychael was protecting me, and if I had any inforet himself killed in the process, I owed it to him to be completely up-front Tam didn’t hand me over to Darshan, but he’d clearly been blackmailed, coerced, threatened, or all of the above to do just that Tam didn’t scare, so that left the first two Whatever the Khrynsani were holding over Tah to put me in Khrynsani hands It wouldn’t be the first time someone’s past had come back to bite the there to share the teeth marks

I told Mychael about Darshan

Mychael listened, his expression grilad that Tam had come to his senses, and that he’d arrived just in tiain" I left out the part where Darshan offered Tah shit as it was, and Mychael got the picture without it "I think the Khrynsani have soet hi hen you ca to say next wasn’t going to go over well "I’d like to ask hiain"

Mychael almost smiled "Nohat do you thinkto be?"

"I asked you first"

"No," he said

"No, what?"

Mychael leaned forward, until there were only inches between us "No, you’re not going to question Tam I am It’s safer for you--and for everyone else"

"To avoid te tempted"

"Exactly"

I couldn’t blaree with hiue He must have sensed it; either that, or he read my tired little mind I didn’t know and quite frankly I was too exhausted to care

Mychael reached out and took one of my hands in both of his It ar, and nice Really nice Mychael was right Tae I was a dark- to happen

Mychael squeezedI find out"

That was a surprise "Everything?"

"Everything For your continued safety, you need to know--and you deserve to know"

"What’s Justinius going to have to say about this?"