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“I proet on with it? Or do I have to stand here forever?”

“I mean it Don’t look”

And she didn’t

For all of two seconds

She couldn’t say exactly why she turned around to see what he was doing Sure, she was curious, but normally she would have kept her word—but this ti made the hairs on her nape stand on end, and she felt the air charge around her It was a strange, electric sensation that made her skin bristle and her heart race It wasn’t so much that she decided to turn It was more she felt compelled to

And what she saas incomprehensible

Mace had loosened his shirt and lowered it down at the back Just enough for her to see the head of a small tattoo on his shoulder bl

ade It was a strange tattoo for aas hiang e of a bat

She shuddered at the sight, ree Okay, not literally, but it had definitely been to blame for her fall She hadn’t been overly fond of bats before that incident Now she really didn’t like them

For some reason, she couldn’t take her eyes fro to do with hiswas incredibly detailed You could alle hair on the bat’s head And the eyes were so lifelike they seemed to stare at her

No

Not seemed

They were staring at her

An icy chill ran up her spine as her stomach fell She couldn’t rip her eyes fro Because the tattoo wasMace’s muscles clenched, his body shivered and tensed, and then the batto three-dimensional animal

Right