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He thought his heart ht crack into a million pieces

“Ashwood…he said…” Oscar hesitated, then forged on, “He said you would be disappointed in hi Are you sure you aren’t mista—”

“He obviously tricked you as well,” Bellamy interrupted hi, after all Too char What had his mother said about the spell of the moon? No, it was the spell of Ashwood “Let it rest now, Oscar I cannot take much more”

“I’ned, and that would have to do for now

Chapter 4

“Where are we, anyway?” Bella his eyes for a few minutes Oscar had stayed silent the entire ti him further

“In Lunar’s Reach,” Oscar replied, glancing out the

“This place couldn’t really belong to Ashwood,” he said, recalling how they’d lived in an empty warehouse previous to his escape from Black Hollow “So what did he do, steal or borrow—”

The words evoked thefor hi Gladstone to have it all

“Ashwood assuredfor you”

“Waiting for what?”

“Apparently for you to come to your senses,” Oscar said with a pointed look “Or for the occasion to explain himself, perhaps?”

Bellamy wondered why Ashwood hadn’t just taken hiley’s watch But perhaps that hy He did not want to cause any alar for him because, no doubt, the madam would’ve had to involve them Which would’ve caused trouble for her, and the constable had already been trouble enough, always threatening to shut her establish behind closed doors with that wretched er of this world, the threat gone Only to be replaced by a new one

“So you presented Ashith the right opportunity to take me?”

“Help you,” Oscar insisted, and if Bellay, he would’ve rolled his eyes

“I need to speak to Ashwood right away” And give theTo involve one of the lads froh it seeotten himself involved in the first place “Where exactly is he?”