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"I a to each other, while you play soame on your phone Seriously not a fun time for me"

He propped his elbows on the table and rested his chin in his hands "What do you want to talk about, Katy?"

My irritation rose at his tone "I’ve been trying to talk to you about all kinds of topics for over an hour"

"So, doing anything for Christ a deep breath, I reined inso pretty serious"

"They are" I pulledas the door opened "I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason why--"

Blake’s phone dinged, and he immediately checked it out Annoyed, I clamped my mouth shut and stared at the e God I grabbedfor him to pick up the check My boots crunched over the packed snow and ice As soon as November had rolled around, all it did was snow an inch or two every few days It was like one giant prelude to a blizzard

Blake joined"Way to wait"

I rolledas I climbed into his truck We headed back onto the road in silence Arirlfriend, which was so wrong We weren’t like that, but it was as if we’d just had the date fro at the speed of Grand bounced with annoyance and io ho to pick up an effin’ book, and I was going to read for fun Then I would blog I would forget about Blake and this stupid, craptastic alien power My gaze dropped toon the floor, hard and slender under the thin soles of hts reflected off soold and shiny Curious, I started to bend down

The obsidian flared underat the same moment Blake swerved the truck off the road and into a ditch

Swinging toward him, my heart raced as the heat from the obsidian seared my skin "There’s an Aruht "Get out of the truck, Katy"

"What?" I shrieked

"Get out of the truck!" He reached over, unhooking "

Realization set in, hard and frightening I let out a shaky breath as the obsidian continued to increase in heat "You brought me out of the safety of the beta quartz on purpose!"

"If your strongest abilities are attached to your emotions, then we need to find out how to tap into the all emotional to see what you can do, then practice with less excitement Like we did with the knife and then pillows" He stretched over farther and opened my car door "Arum can sense us better than they can the Luxen It’s the DNA thing Luxen have a built-in cloaking in their DNA We don’t"

My chest rose and fell quickly "You never told me that before"

"You were safe within the beta quartz It wasn’t an issue"

I stared at hi out of the radius without knowing this? We would’ve been attacked Did Blake even care about et out," he said

Obviously not "No! No way a out there with an Aru to be okay" He sounded as if he were telling ive a speech in front of a class and not face ahappen to you"

Then he got out of the car, disappearing into the thick tree line and leaving me alone in the truck Too stunned todarkness I couldn’t believe he’d done this

If I survived tonight, I was going to kill Blake

An inky shadow glided over the road and followed the trail Blake has walked into the woods A burst of light exploded, filling up the sky, but was quickly snuffed out as I heard Blake’s pained screa out of the truck, I slammed the door shut and squinted into the darkness "Blake?" After several moments of no answer, panic clawed up e of the woods, wary to enter the my sweater close, I shivered as an unnatural silence settled aroundaround, I headed back to the truck I’d call my mom I’d even call Daeer door before I could take another step Dark and oily, it built onto itself until an outline of a man blocked my path

"Crap," I whispered

It took the for resehn’s house "Hello, little one Aren’t you so around, s behind me as I took off I ran fast--faster than I’d ever run before So fast that the little flakes of snow the biting wind pelted against my cheeks felt like tiny pebbles I wasn’t even sure round

But no matter how fast I ran, the Arum was faster

A dark, murky shade appeared beside rabbed for my obsidian Ready to shove the point into whatever part my hand landed on