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“That’s great!” Jayce bea will it take?”

“As long as it takes” Toland gave hi back a minute, would you?”

I tried to catch the vampire’s eye, but he wouldn’t look at ue sort of concern—but that was a guess at best I was having asto feel Xero e first got here

The only difference was, Xero had come back to me

I wasn’t sure Kai ever would

Nothing changed much over the next feeeks

Which, given our circu bad

It felt like Kai and I had gone back to square one, and this time there wasn’t even a bar in the snowy , and I stuck to trying to ignore the gaping hole in my armor

It wasn’t easy Every week, Toland held an assembly Every week, his optiet back before the beginning of the school year, then it was before our first break, and then he stopped talking about getting out altogether Meanwhile, I joined the rest of the student body in going positively stir-crazy

“I just wish there was so as I stared out ed wilderness beyond the cave Fallen University had abreak in between school years, so classes hadn’t started back up yet, although they would soon

“Like what?” She glanced aton her bed

“I don’t know I kind of want to see what’s out there I still can’t tell if those are trees or bones”

She shotlook “No! Don’t even think about it, Piper”

“But look!” I flung a hand out toward the“It’s right there I could pop out and be back before anybody kneas ”

“Yeah, and get caught by a de her eyes “It’s not that bad At least we’re safe inside the school Read a book or so”