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“That answer is soI could have possibly expected from you”

Arachne grinned, her fangs wet and gleaht of her doain, Dustin Graves Stay alive”

The screen disasse into a net of loose strands and threads The bejeweled spider scuttled away fro itself into a crack in the stone, then disappearing from view

So Thea was still alive I knew it I didn’t need to be told So connected the two of us, this unseen thread woven out of betrayal and vengeance On some level I knew that she couldn’t die unless it was by my hand It wouldn’t be just any other way

I laid back against ainstto ship Asher out in aafter I shut et this all out of my sy

stem

I raised one hand to the ceiling, pal an invisible sphere I thought of ht of Thea

Burn, I thought Burn Burn

Chapter 21

Stea on top of ht out in Valero, made even colder by the fact that ere smack in the center of the Nicola Arboretum I wasn’t sure how my coffee was still hot, or why I hadn’t finished it already, actually By rights it should have died an honorable death withinin my hand

Carver had asked us to swing by a coffee shop en route, which he had never done before, and it was clearly a gesturewith two hundred-dollar bills, then laughed it off when the barista asked hie It wasn’t the first time I wondered where the hell his wealth ca us?

Okay, so ht us coffees because we’d never actually traveled outside of the hideout together much But was I bitter? Yes Of course As kind as Carver was towith Asher Gallant, even I sucked onlimpse of my tattoo each time I lifted my cup to my mouth

Asher was finishing up the rest of his coffee I didn’t knohat he ordered, only that it was hot Gil stood in front of us with his ar didn’t co for reasons that should be obvious – none of the the sun, of course

Carver had tipped back the entirety of his insanely hot Aht in front of an extremely horrified barista, and the six equally horrified people behind us in line I had to re since he’d been hus were supposed to work

“Ah She comes”