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Owen stared at his sister, but he didn't co

ntradict her words "And then Ime make my own pieces, my oeapons and sculptures Benedict, Salina's father, saw one of ns for a knife and commissioned a similar piece When it was finished, I delivered it to the Dubois house That's how I met Salina "

He didn't say anything else, and I didn't ask what had happened next Even now, it was obvious Owen had cared deeply about her

That he had loved her

Jealousy seeped throughme from the inside out, and a bitter taste filledany of the turmoil I felt

The Owen Grayson I kneasn't the type of oing to spend the rest of his life with her His dedication to the people he cared about was one of the things I adwith so someone else

Owen cleared his throat "Salina wascaptivating Beautiful, ht I'd ever wanted in a woman She had a wild streak, and it suited her just fine to take up with a poor blacksh her father didn't approve of me "

"Wait aabout Benedict Dubois, right? The old mob boss? The one that Mab made such an example out of?"

Owen nodded "Salina was his only daughter She was there the night it happened, and so was I "

His words were like a key opening a lock in ht the name had sounded faht I'd seen Salina's mermaid rune before I'd met her at Underwood's Now I remembered exactly where I knew the na job Fletcher had taken o

"Salinachanged after that," Owen said "Witnessing her father'sto her "

"Yeah," Eva piped up "It made her even more of a heartless bitch than she already was "

Owen ignored her and looked at me "After Mab killed her father, I felt even more of a connection to Salina She had ended up just like the three of us - with nothing Mab took everything that Benedict had - all his- and then she left his h et my own place, so I did, and Salinawas perfect "

"I'et to the part where it all rong," Finn said

Owen gri like that Cooper finally found out ere using hiood man, and he really did care about us He tried to convince me to stop, but I didn't want to listen to hi fun, and I didn't want it to stop So I quit working for hi weapons and sculptures on oods, I would case o back later with Phillip We would take anted just like we'd been doing all along "