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“Lizzy, what did you do?” He rubbed his head, checking for blood “What happened?”

Plucking the dagger off the ground, I sheathed it and smiled “I killed it Take that, Ashley”

The bragging rights were mine for a month I couldn’t wait to see her face when she heard that I’d out scored her today She’d be furious

“No, I can see that” He pointed at the last wisps of de you did before? You were glowing You’re not nearly advanced enough to havewith my own Only a handful of warriors have that ability”

A grin pulled at the corner of ood?”

“It’s not a good thing, Lizzy” He frowned, pulling et out of hand like that, you’ll hurt yourself, or worse You’re not ready to control them”

“But I’ve been workingat the otten shoulder wound “I can handle it”

His eyes shifted to my shoulder and they ith concern He juripped asped as pain radiated from the wound

“Sorry,” he said with an apologetic frown, loosening his grip “What happened?”

“It stabbed ain “It took er” The fierce look Gabe shot me threw me into defensive mode “It was only for a second But it’s just a shoulder wound, I promise It’ll heal fast”

I’d had worse wounds than this froaret Thatcher A little shoulder wound wasn’t going to get me down

He shook his head “Your father isn’t going to like this”

I stretched to my tiptoes and planted a kiss on his cheek “Luckily for us, he’s still in Europe”

As it turned out, my luck had ran out We returned to Westward Manor to find my father and his sister, Esther, back froet e out of oing straight to my wound

“What happened?” he de with concern