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squarely in the chest, knocking him back

and off his feet He was dead before he hit the ground Meg felt the

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anger that suffused young Beck’s being His father tried to pull him to

safety, but Beck had pulled his sword and opened his senses for the

first tiical track of the arrow He rolled out of the way of the next one to come after him

Meg felt a charge of excitement as he shot to his feet and pursued the

assassin She heard his father’s anxious cries

She felt the blood on his hands when he caught the assassin He’d

ignored the man’s cries for mercy Beck’s beast was loose, and he had

noBeck valued He’d

taken froain

It was the first time Beck realized his father was afraid of him

Meg groaned as the scene in his head changed Sex, she sighed