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She squared her shoulders “Does it look as though I’?”

The anger ripped through hiain He whirled around and clasped the woodenvery much to tear it from the stone fireplace

“Please don’t hurt my house,” she pleaded “I understand you’re mad, but—”

“I am not mad,” he said between clenched teeth “I ale you, Jade Tanner too, for swearing you in”

“It was my choice Leave him out of it I had to convince him to do it”

“Why would you even want this?” he demanded “After the wraith attacks? Goddamn it You kno susceptible you are to pain, and yet you’ve gone and put yourself in the inable! Why?”

He couldn’t bring hih not to try to placate hiesture In fact, she was ser boiled in his veins

“Slayers are born, not just cultivated,” she said “I’ve always known I had the capability to fight—I was a natural from the first ti, so I started working with Tanner o, after the fire wraith brokeso vulnerable, so I asked Tanner to help ot mauled and…”

She faltered, then took a breath before plunging ahead “I knew I had to do so The only expertise I didn’t possess that’s required by a slayer is the knowledge of how to kill a demon…and the ability to do it”

Finally, he jerked around and glared at her “The chicken?”

She nodded “I ripped its throat out with my bare hand”

The fury within hi you is to teach you how to square off with a shifter?”

“It’s so I need to learn, Darien I am a slayer now”

Holy hell She intended to stand her ground with this suicidal idea But he had a say in the n the docuistry”

She gasped “You wouldn’t reject them”