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"Keep hi the orders Salina had issued to her guards earlier tonight

Owen let out a curse and started forward, but Kincaid held on to his arht air Owen looked down in disbelief at the gun Finn had pressed to his side

"I don't want to hurt you, Owen," Finn said in a regretful tone "But we both knoill So why don't you just stand still while Gin does her thing "

"Gin," Owen said a final time, that same plea in his voice

I stared atinto his beautiful violet eyes Then I turned away

Behindwith Finn and Kincaid, but I shut the sounds out of my mind

I dropped to a knee beside Salina The water ele to frost given how cold the air was froic Blood had already frozen on the Ice beneath her body, and her blond hair fanned out around her in lovely waves, as though she were underwater

Salina looked at me, then turned her head to stare at Owen She s in her eyes, before she looked at me once more

"I won't stop," Salina rasped in a low voice only I could hear, as the blood continued to puunshot wounds "I can't stop - ever "

"I knoeetheart," I said softly "I know "

And then I leaned over and cut her throat

"No!" Owen shouted "No! No! No!"

But it was too late, and the cut I'd asped, arched her back, and clawed at the wound, but she kneas over, just like I did Salina looked at reen eyes, then lolled her head to the side to stare at Owen She s for hi that had happened, everything she'd done, everything that had passed between them

Then the light went out of her eyes, her hand fluttered to the Ice, and she was still, as cold and dead and still as the shattered, frozen mermaid that loomed over us

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