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I didn’t need to ask him if it was him or Sim or whoever, because somehow… he was both at once and did it really matter

I just elbowed him and said, “You and your bloodlust”

His smile hen he answered “Don’t you know it”

Chapter Twenty-Six

“To travel hopefully is a better thing to arrive” —Robert Louis Stevenson

Maksim

She laughs with me

She doesn’t ask me who I aht

I smile and look up at the clouds

I really do want Valerian’s sweater; pain in my ass has always dressed better

“So,” Ashsecrets probably not the most fun few months”

I snort “No, it was a total joy waking up with blood onwhere it came from sometimes”

Ash flinches “Seriously?”

“I see…“Probably because I keep journals, so I can always go back and read but sometimes… I really don’t want to knohat I’m capable of”

“Soirls all talk in a circle on the grass “It’s good to know that you’re basically a superhero now”

“Hah” I laugh “What’s so super about this?”

“Well,” Junior pours ument with Izzy and really piss her off—”

“—Which you will,” Valerian adds in

“Exactly” Junior laughs “You’ll just go, I’m so sorry, babe, that clearly wasn’t me How can I make it up to you?”

I burst out laughing “That’s cruel even for you”

“Those girls carry weapons” Junior points out “I have actual stab wounds frohed and said that was fun…”

Valerian shudders “They’re all crazy, and hey, now so are you!”

Tank coirls are crazy”

We all burst out laughing

He frowns “Did I ?”

“We’re all a bit crazy,” I add in “Though I do reirl ent a bit crazy with me when I tied her up”

All eyes are on me

“What?” I shrug “It was fun”

“So like,” Ash leans in “You tied her to a bed MY FUCKING SISTER?”

He lunges