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He turned his head and stared deep intome, Seer?”

“My naroaned into my ear when you were comi—

“Enough,” he snarled

I s under his skin, especially now that ere on an even playing field when it came to ent on inside each other’s heads One could even argue I had a leg up I could hide things

“Which is why I will ask you once again, Jeni; what are you keeping from me?”

My mind quickly shuffled The real secret was in my belly, but I could never tell him “It’s no secret You’re just not ready to hear it yet,” I lied, hoping he’d thinkto do with the Seers’ plans for him

King narrowed those hypnotic pale eyes “I do not like your kind, Jeni And I like your games even less”

“Why, King? Why do you hate Seers? Is it because you couldn’t tame us? Is it because the ancient ones refused to be your obedient slaves?”

“Seers killed my family”

That part I coht? What happened? How did they all die to begin with? Why did you bring a bunch of them back from the dead?” He must’ve known it wouldn’t end well

“It is a long story; however, not all of the wo It was only a handful”

“So solad to be raised from the dead to work for you?”

“One in particular insisted upon it She believed her place was at my side”

So I wasn’t the first Seer to have a thing for the enig “But then why kill them all after their attempted takeover of Ten Club? Why not just reainst you?”

“I no longer required their services, and frankly, I was not in theI si I proo”

The Seers had told me about this They said he’d lied to Mia and told her Ten Club no longer existed, but he’d been running it behind her back She found out and left hiet her back, but that hen everything went to shit The Seers found out King was about to pull the plug and send them back to Seer-land, but then they decided they wanted to rule the roup of individuals on the planet

That was another piece I didn’t understand I’d been given the impression my kind wasn’t violent

“Were you not just beggingasked, listening in on my head chatter