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Giving a sardonic laugh, I closed , “So, I’, allow her to get her wish, andthat? It’s absurd”

“We don’t knohat the Elders will decide,” Montgo that you finish what you started Become a member of the Order like you’ve alanted to do Let fate take it from there”

“Even if fate et married?”

“You aren’t one to quit,” Walker added “I know I haven’t completed my own Initiation yet, and I have no idea just how difficult the Trials are, but I know if I just spent 109 days here, I sure as fuck wouldn’t throw in the towel in the final hour”

“I wouldn’t be the first person in our group to fail,” I said softly, hating the idea of joining the ranks of outcasts but knowing it was a possibility

“Sully failed… but he’s a different story He never wanted this You do You’ve wanted to be a member of The Order of the Silver Ghost maybe more than all of us I kno iomery pointed out

I hated that they were all right I didn’t want to fail I wanted to be a member of the Order and had since I was a kid “I just wish she hadn’t lied to me”

“She’s had to lie for years,” Walker said “I don’t think she kno to be truthful anyard to her situation And I can’t say I blairl soo through And there isn’t a man at this table who doesn’t have secrets Just because she withheld her past from you, doesn’t mean she’s a bad person”

“Says aher,” I bit out between clenched teeth “And I never said she was a bad person”

Bellamy was far from a bad person Yes, I was pissed Furious with her But the truth of the matter was my heart broke for her If she had been honest with iven her every last cent needed I would have… I would have never made her complete all these Trials, just so she could pay her bills

I think that here er was

I wanted to help Bellamy I would have helped in every way

I just didn’t want to be tricked into doing it