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Hands rolled me onto my side to make it easier for me to breathe I just lay there, cold and half-frozen by ers curled into the dirt,down breath after breath After a few ht there on the dirt next to mine - but it wasn't the one that I expected His eyes were blue, not violet, and his hair was as light as the sunshine kissing the forest

Kincaid gaveto weasel out of our deal just by dying, Gin "

Deal? We didn't have any deal I'd never agreed to kill Salina for him I opened my mouth to tell him that, but the words just wouldn't coain, and I was helpless to resist it once more

The girl had finally quit screa

Even though her father was dead and had been for a while now, the girl was still slu like she would never, ever stop Each one of her loud, wild, soul-wrenching cries was like a knife piercing my own heart I knew that pain, I knew those screams all too well - they were the same ones that had torn my heart to pieces and spewed out of my mouth after the murder of my family

I was still a little shocked by what had happened Mab Monroe had spent the better part of an hour torturing Benedict Dubois, burning hi in his tearful pleas and whied her to stop And she'd uests, all the chefs, all the waiters, even Dubois's own daughter

It had been like a nightmare come to life

At first, Mab had toyed with Dubois, jabbing her red-hot fingers into his ar out Then, she'd used her eles; she'd even used her power to singe all the hair off his head like she was scalping him

Still, nojust like Fletcher did beside me These were the realities of life in Ashland, especially for an assassin-in-training like me Because if I was ever captured, especially by someone like Mab, I would face the same sort of torture Fletcher didn't say the words He didn't have to Not tonight Not when I was faced with so like this

Once Dubois was dead, I'd thought the Fire eleirl to quiet her down, but Mab just let her screah the sound as I'd seen the Fire eleirl broke free of the boy holding her, threw herself on top of her father's body, and started crying, her sobs just as loud as her screams had been

When it was finally over, Mab dusted the pieces of ash and burned flesh off her hands and turned to face the horrified crowd

"A to have any more problems from the rest of you?" she asked "Or has this been an adequate enough display of my position in Ashland? I'm happy to demonstrate further, if you like "

No one said a word

Mab let out a pleased, pealing laugh "I thought not "

She turned and snapped her finger at one of her giants "Bring the car around I'm finished here "