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A shiver went through me Alarm But also awareness

Desire

I couldn’t suppress a full-body shiver

I felt Cavers looking nored him

“What are you talking about?” Jake asked, but his shoulders were already slu he knew

“You know”

Panic flashed in Jake’s gaze before he looked at me

“She knows, too,” Raize growled

Jake sed, his Ada

Raize was not letting hi it clear who he trusted and who he didn’t

I swung surprised eyes to Cavers He slowly stood up and nodded, as if affir a few feet between Raize and himself

Or no… Actually, he was giving Raize room to do what he needed to do

“No” The rung from me

I couldn’t Not Jake

I couldn’t see someone else I knew die

Just, no

Raize ignoredhimself between Jake and un in the bulge of his shirt

He could grab it so quickly, so easily

I wanted to fold over “No, no, no”

“I—” Jake looked around the room

Looking for allies? Help?

Cavers had shut do I couldn’t see Raize’s face, but his body was primed Ready He’d kill Jake in a heartbeat, and he wouldn’t feel a thing while he did

Jake saw this, knew this, and his face clouded over “Fuck”

His eyes foundthat day the other henchman had been killed Just one question That’s all it took One question from Raize and one answer from me, and Jake had to dispose of two bodies that day

“Carloni wants you dead,” Jake confessed

Raize didn’t move

Jake studied hiht You already know that You already know that he put me in your employer flashed in his eyes His jaent rigid “You knew the whole time?” His eyes slid to me “She knows, too? You told her, and that’s why she wants nothing to do with me?”

Raize moved now

It was

His back straightened, and his head rose, but it wasn’t just that It was a whole transformation, as if he had shed his skin and a new Raize stood in front of us A new predator He had shed whatever was holding hih the room