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"Then this place is no better than The Colony," I say

"I’m sorry you feel that way" He turns for the doorway

"I’ at the chains "I’m not a blood thirsty monster--I can’t be"

But he’s already out the door and I choke on ainst the wall Is this how it’s always going to be? A to be locked up?

"Sometimes people will fear you, what you can do," Monarch says "That’s e have to keep you who you really are hidden until the tih I know the voice was into h the tunnel

Tiround, like a lonely soldier, resting my eyes to prepare myself for whatever comes next

I’m woken up by the sound of low voice and the pitter-patter of footsteps

"Are you sure she’s just asleep?" A guy’s voice, soft and mysterious

"Yeah, I’m sure Aiden said the silver didn’t kill her"

I slowly lift my eyelids and slide my hand over a sharp rock

"But sometimes it just takes a while, doesn’t it?"

"No," he says "And wishing she was dead isn’t going to ers around the rock, the edges cutting into the palm of my hand as I scoot it toward me

"Yeah, but do you kno ?" he says "She’s not a bad person"

"Doesn’t matter" Footsteps approach oing back"

"That’s not true--there was Xander Besides, I can’t see her choosing to turn into one of theo to roll me over, but I’m on my feet and have them flipped around before the other one can react It’s Greyson, who I have trapped inhi the sharp rock to Greyson’s throat, not hard enough to break skin, but hard enough for hiuy, with dark golden hair and piercing brown eyes backs aith his hands up "No one does, okay" His heart is all over the place He’s afraid, which

"Tellis that I’

Greyson thinks I’ainst his chest "We don’t have the keys, Kayla I se don’t"

Aggravation builds Do I have it in me? Can I really shed the blood of a human, just to save myself? "Dammit" I drop the rock and shove Greyson away fro with you?" Greyson cries, clutching his neck "You were never this mean before God, you reallysoot, va one red "Not a vampire, Kayla"

I pause "Then what?"

He only sh"

Then they leaveWhat else could there be that they think I am? There are only three kinds of breeds that I know of: Huhers I scan over hers I lift a strand of my hair, which is black as ash And the last time I checked my eyes were still brown

But what else could they mean?

Chapter 21

Ti what’s going to happen to me, or what has happened to Maci And even Bernard I just left theeon and my mind flashes back to a scene at The Colony, when two Watchers hauled ht red door; a door I no that, at one time or another, I was locked behind and covered with blood

This tiuards’ faces are blocked out by s, and they wear grey padded suits, like their trying to protect every part of their body Each one has a knife strapped to their belt They fearin their veins

"Stand," the taller one orders through hison h a mask "Get to your feet, now"