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“Are you certain?” Ethan asks “You have no injuries at all?”

“Nope,” I tell hi into the fact that I had been hurt but I’m better now because I drank Dru’s blood Ethan looks deep intothere

“You seem relaxed,” he remarks, “too relaxed, in fact” Then he pulls me close to hiet over here now,” he de

Dru saunters over “What’s the problem Cristescu?” she asks, annoyed to be called away from Antonia

“You had Tegan feed fro with anger

“She had a cracked rib,” Dru answers, nonchalant, “she was in a lot of pain, so I volunteered to help,” she shrugs and a smile just about touches her lips

“You are aware of our relationship and yet you allow her to drink fro for a fight” Ethan says to her, in a strict toneless voice

“Calm down, Cristescu, my blood will be out of her system in no ency, I wasn’t thinking of how your fragile ego et bruised”

Ethan steps forward, raising his hand, and it looks like he’s about to strike Dru just before Antonia intervenes fro position over on the table

“Touch her and you will havethe threat in her words “There are more important issues at hand You two can settle your differences between yourselves another time”

Ethan lowers his hand and turns away from Dru and back to uely repulsed by the fact that he had been about to hit a woman, even if she does look like she could oes to put his hand on my shoulder but I step aside quickly

“You would have hit her, wouldn’t you?” I say, shocked despite the fact that I’ve witnessed this man kill with his bare hands

“In our world it is highly offensive to do what Dru did It would be weak of me not to reprimand her, especially since I outrank her both in status and in age”

“Don’t you dare try to get back at her later Ethan, she helped oing after her for this”