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“I know it’s hard to believe me I know that, but you have to try and understand that I was backed against a wall,” I told him “My mother abandoned et into bed with one of those animals They threatened to killfor me was the fact that the leader wanted to sleep withtio I hate what I’ve done, I hate it so much and I want to be here! This feels like family and I want to be a part of that”

As he listened, Dah his hair “Alright,” his eyes flicked up to mine and hope welled in my chest

“But you have a lot to prove, kid”

Chapter Thirteen

We needed to act fast Things could go very wrong very quickly, and just like Damien said, I had a lot to prove I waited nervously in the roo on the balls of athered outside, drinking and chatting as if they were having a party I would have expected y, but everyone other than me seemed calm I wondered how they could sit there so easily but I understood that if they showed any other emotion than that, the entire plan would implode

I’d called Fang earlier in the day and while Damien and Ryder listened in on ht Since there would be drinks no one would be armed I informed him of a back route to the camp that I hadn’t even known about until now On paper it seeet in and out of the cah the woods and hills, it was going to present a problem for Chaos Theory

Da his men sneak back around after Chaos Theory entered the ca to be one hell of a trap Once they realized that Daet pinched in between the two groups Chaos Theory would be outnuo down

Damien made it clear to , I was going to have to accept that they were going to die This wasn’t a situation in which Da to take prisoners They had trouble with Chaos Theory before They’d let them be for a while since they didn’t encroach onto their territory, but now that Da to leave any survivors

Mywouldn’t risk bringing junkies to a fight; they were more of a liability than help I understood that everyone fro to be dead by sundown and part of uilt, however, didn’t coe that I wasn’t going to le one of those assholes I briefly wondered hoful of a person that made me

I turned lanced around the party It was so strange how they could re in a nearby chair, watching me with heavy eyes I started to walk over toward hiot up and left before I could reach hied to win back Damien’s trust, I knew that the life I’d hoped to have with Ryder was gone I’d ruined my only chance at happiness

As the “party” wore on, I glanced at roup Fang wanted me to meet them just inside the woods so that I’d be out of the way As I broke the tree line I could already see the faint shiht They weren’t hidden well and thatclearly It was a very real possibility that they’d decided to do this raid high

I jogged over to the bright chro puff off the end of a crack pipe When I came close

“Well, well If it isn’t our very own Trojan horse,” he hu, wet, sloppy kiss to my lips

I winced and tried to turn away, but he had a tight hold on me and snorted when I tried to pull free “What, Princess?” he whispered, his voice full of blatant disrespect “Didn’t you miss me?”

“Of course,” I snorted, rolling et suspicious “Let me down”