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dark strand of hair
behind my ears, I decided to start over. What did you come up with?
Nothing useful, Peter admitted wearily, keeping his gaze on the floor.
Come on, I scoffed. You just said you d been preparing for this-
I ve been trying, Peter cut me off again. But I just can t see a way around anything. He
sighed
darkly, then muttered to himself. I suppose that s why he brought you.
What are you talking about? I felt myself stiffening, as if he was claiming something
derogatory. I
came with Ezra because I thought I could help.
No, Ezra brought you with because he knew how utterly useless you would be, and he
thought I
would be unwilling to facilitate in your murder for a second time, Peter explained, his voice
dripping with
venom. And I m been going back in forth between it all day long, wondering what I would
I finally do when
it came down to it.
There was a sinking feeling growing in my chest, as if I had been used in a pawn in all of
this. I had
come back here to try to talk some sense into Peter, and I thought that I had managed to
that, if only a little.
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But the way Peter was talking made it sound like I had been brought on as more of an
anchor. I hadn t been
brought along because of my skills, but rather the lack thereof.
What? I demanded, but my anger was wearing off, replaced with an aching sense of
uselessness.
If I leave to go after Ezra, and I bring you along, you ll get killed! If I leave you here, they ll
follow
my scent back and slaughter you! If I try to put you on a plane to get out of here, you ll
probably do
something horrible in bloodlust and get yourself killed or something even worse. And if you
managed to make
it back home, the lycan would probably follow you back. There s nothing I can do except
stay here and babysit
you! Peter growled.
I don t& I started to stumble out some kind of protest about needing a baby-sitter, but I
realized
that everything he was said was probably true, and I was an idiot for not seeing it sooner.
After the initial sting
of that wore off, I thought of something even stranger, especially given the way that Peter
talked to me.
What do you even care if I die? So what? Let s just go out there and give them hell.
Like you could really give them hell, Peter laughed hollowly. You d just slow me down.
Maybe, I admitted and swallowed. What you re saying & or thinking& If Ezra isn t
coming back
and they re only going to come after us& then& Why don t you just go? I ll just wait here
until you come
back or they come for me. I don t want to slow down your fight. But it s better than the
both of us waiting
here to die.
His expression changed instantly into something that was completely foreign to me. It took
me a
minute to realize that it was something that resembled concern and affection for me, of all
things. Even when
we had been bonded, he d never looked at me like that. His emerald eyes were swimming
with something
harder, and he lowered them before I could get a complete read on what he was thinking.
That s an idiotic plan, Peter shook his head.
That s pretty much what your plan is, I countered evenly.
I m not gonna just leave you here! Peter insisted tightly.
But you re saying they ll kill me no matter what! At least this way you can get in a few good
punches,
take out some of the bastards that- I stopped myself before I said anything about Ezra
being injured. Even
though I was talking about and even thinking about, I couldn t really believe it was true. He
was Ezra, and he
was all powerful. If anybody could make out through a pack of lycan, it was him. Clearly, I
wasn t the only
one that thought that way, or Peter never would ve let Ezra go off alone with them.
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You d be completely unprotected. You wouldn t even stand a chance, Peter shook his
head again,
sounding tired of this conversation, and stood up.
So what? You almost killed me once before and now you re suddenly my body guard? I
wrinkled my
nose at his hypocrisy.
Oh, god dammit! Peter rolled his eyes. I m so sick of having that thrown in my face! I did
that
because I loved you, Alice! He immediately regretted saying that and stared off anywhere
but me.
Yeah, cause that s a healthy way to express love! By killing another person! I was
purposely pushing
his buttons. If the only chance at a rescue mission was Peter going off without me, then I
had to piss him off
enough to leave me. Although, it didn t really make sense that he d need any persuading.
Normally he couldn t
wait to get away from me, and with the bond between us broken, I figured he d be even
more eager to.
I wasn t trying to kill you! I was trying to kill me! Peter rubbed his eyes, looking as if he d
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