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His touch is too inti down my neck and intomy damnedest not to enjoy the sensation Iinto his eyes He doesn’t look like a killer The way his hand cradles my head makes me feel safe I feel like I can trust him I feel like he

Son of a--

I shove Sosch into his lap and stand "That won’t work"

He keeps the seduction charade up another litter in his eyes He sets Sosch on the table "You can’t bla, can you?"

"I can I do"

He laughs "Of course you do I h Your freedoe, I think, but the offer won’t last long"

"Your offers aren’t worth shit anyway"

The light leaves his eyes "You really do hatefor Kelia in hopes that she’s finished sparring with Naito so we can resu, though They must have taken my unspoken advice and found a room

"Do you not doubt the Court at all?" Aren asks

I turn back to him and snap, "Not since Brykeld"

He flinches as if I’ve just taken a swing at hi his expression "Brykeld was--"

"An accident?" I demand

He slowly stands "I wasn’t there--"

"Liar"

"--when it was burned," he finishes, his eyes narrowing "I wouldn’t have allowed it"

"Were you there for the rapes, then?"

A ht eye "No"

"Convenient!"

Kyol apologized a thousand ti me to Brykeld He said he never would have done so if he kne bad it was going to be I had nightmares for weeks afterward Even now, more than two years later, I sometimes hear the screams The rebels locked entire families inside shops with silver-painted walls They boarded up the s and doors and then set the structures on fire The Court fae tried to help, but they were occupied fighting the rebels I did what I could, ignoring the flas with a dead fae’s sword I caly burns on ’s healers to repair the daave you the person responsible for Brykeld," Aren says

"You were responsible for it" And I can’t stand here talking to hier I turn abruptly and head for the inn

"Madin, son of Vinth," he calls after nize the narabs my arm and forces me to face him

"You knoho he was," he says

"One of your fae So?"