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I stop crying,"Well aren’t you clever?"

"And there you are" He leans over et to you"

I start to laugh "You can’t win this one, Alex Avery I know you won’t hurt her and as long as I control her, you can’t hurt me either"

He looks ju in different persons

"What’s themy hips up "Are you confused? Or is it that deep down, you really like that you finally have me tied down to your bed?"

He scowls "You’re not Geh "How do you know?’

He tips his head down inches away froers track down ht here" His thumb caresses my wrist, over the star tattoo "Love I’ht?"

I hiss "Avery’s don’t kno to love"

He leans back "No, Avery’s don’t kno to love an evil queen who hangs out all day with the dead" He sighs and jumps off the bed "Aislin, she’s awake"

The door creaks open Aislin enters, appearing like her norlet of curls around her pink cheeks She wears a yellow sundress embroidered hite daisies

"Why’s she here?" I growl, exposing s

"Ever heard of an exorcislow "Noon’t do one per se, since I’ to do the witch version of it"

I laugh sharply "I’ to have to do better than that" I shiftover and take a kick at her

She hops back, her eyes extensive "Wow She’s really mean"

"She’s not Geet on with it?"

Aislin oal on me "I’m really sorry" She shuts her eyes and thrust her hands out in front of her "Hoc impii ire Nisi hanc ex omnibus dolor Veniat ad nos" Her hands tremor and her head judders from side to side Her voice bellows, "Hoc impii ire Nisi hanc ex omnibus dolor Veniat ad nos!"

An invisible needle pricks atback as

"Hoc impii ire Nisi hanc ex oain, her eyes snapping open A haunting glow pierces from her hands and intoas my body rocks Fro to touchhis need "You’ll ruin the spell"

He crosses his arhtly under his ar her hands up, Aislin plunges a red streak ofit with heat I screa to split in two

"It’s working, I think" Aislin’s voice is far away

My body thrashes, ht

"Is it hurting her?"

"Probably"

My body stills like a statue

"Aislin, she looks… she looks dead"

Someone shifts closer I wait, motionless, until I feel a breath on my cheek My eyelids fire open Aislin hovers above n of who I aher head

"It didn’t work," she tells Alex apologetically, wiping the sweat from her forehead "I’m so sorry Alex"

"Then it’s on to Plan B" He reaches in his pocket, but Aislin snatches his arm

"No I won’t let you do it," she says "It’s too dangerous"

Alex offers her a sympathetic look "It’s not your decision I have to do it"

Tears slip froht not work… and if it doesn’t, then you’ll be… you’ll be…"

"Dead," Alex finishes for her "And if that’s what it takes, then that’s what it takes I sacrificed ain in a heartbeat"

With a heart wrenching look, she lets his ar her ar his hand out of his pocket, Alex keeps his eyes on e filled with a clear liquid

"Are you insane?" I laugh maliciously "You think that will kill me"

He shakes his head sadly "No I knoon’t" He bites off the cap and spits it onto the floor Taking a deep breath, he ai sparks inside my heart "You won’t do it Hu"

He inches the needle closer "Not this hu I fear is life without her"

My shoulders twitch as sparks shock ain and this ti your bluff," I choke, hacking up a Black Widow "You don’t have it in you"