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Laura dropped her gaze, releasing a heavy sigh “Yeah, I guess you’re right”

“We die if we stay…and we ?”

“Yeah, I guess,” I said “In the ure out the best way to go”

“That won’t be suspicious?” Laura asked

“I have a dagger on me, and they don’t seem to think it’s suspicious We seem to have all the power over the Malevolent and Rebecca and the other servants Even with the dee for as long as we can”

“Forneus requests his angel” Rebecca stood with the poise of a nun, her hands together in front of her sto at me with that sheathed hostility

“I know the way” I shut the book I was reading and got out of bed “Don’t need to show le tis, treating it like a rag instead of an expensive piece of clothing that probably took hours to make by hand

She watched me as if I hadn’t said a word

I hated Amon for what he’d done to Beatrice, but I hated this bitch just as much

The panels separating our roo all of her time in and out of consciousness, either because she was tired or lost the will to go on “Hold on” I walked past Rebecca into the other room

“I said your de—”

“And he can wait another thirty seconds” I ignored her and went to Claire, as on the floor with her toys

She looked pastexactly what her presence ?”

I nodded “I won’t be gone for long But remember what I told you?” I lowered ive you that pill?”

She nodded

“Good” I hugged her and gave her a kiss on the forehead before I went to Beatrice at her bedside “I have a feeling I’ll be gone until …”

She opened her eyes and looked at o The wound couldn’t hurt that much anymore, but she’d clearly lost the will to live

“I’er under the ht?”

She only gave a slight nod

I left the girls and joined Rebecca outside, the icy air hittinghad I been here? Fall had turned into the onset of winter, and every breath was like an ice pack against the lungs

We went up the hill like we usually did

But we didn’t go to the black church

“Where are we going?”