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her live.”

EVE SILVER

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She ran the tip of her tongue over her lips, catching

her own tears.

That wasn’t all, though. He held his silence because

he sensed there was one last bit to the story.

“Finally, I worked up the guts. I came one morning

and she was sleeping, and I did it. I put the pillow over

her face and I held it there. She didn’t even move. Not

the whole time I held it there. I threw that pillow across

the room. I was crying so hard I couldn’t breathe. I

thought I was going to be sick. Then the nurse came in

and she put her hand on my shoulder and she told me

that Rhianna passed about ten minutes before I ever got

there. She didn’t know what I’d done.Ididn’t know

what I’d done.”

She stared at him, breathing hard.

“Nothing. I didn’t save her. Didn’t ease her suffering, either. And in the end, I was alone again.”

And suddenly, Dagan understood everything.

That night, when he’d told her to run from anyone

with the mark of Aset, when he’d told her that if they

found her, they’d keep her, his words hadn’t dissuaded

her. They’d fucking sent her running out in search of

them.

So she wouldn’t be alone.

CHAPTER NINETEEN

They have made war, they have raised up tumult,

They have done wrong, they have created rebel-

lion

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