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en's

w day

a blur as I dragged my tired feet into the bathroom. I needed silence.

g spray, my thoughts refus

in smile when I kissed her earlier, it stuck to my mind like mis

oweled myself dry, I couldn't shake the

ecting peace. Instead, my body wen

ed, heart stumbling. But when

wled, grabbing

d smile. The very maid assigned to serve Elowen. Dresse

ing here?" My v

ductress from an old story. Her tone oozed honey and poison.

, jaw clenched. "You th

how you look at me," she said, slipping off the last of her clothes like i

d. "This is beneath you, Maera." Sh

u touch me, you won't want to stop?"

neath my skin. Con

the dungeons. But when she put a warm hand aga

st. Of betrayal

ng on toes, her breath fanning against my jaw.

er words cut too close to truth. An

abbed

mine, wild and desperat

d mysel

fire. Her kiss tasted like lies and desire. H

gasped. "Say

't," I

didn'

k and sin. And as I drove into her, t

nails digging at my back, pulling me dee

't have an

er, we lay twis

e ceiling, asha

do this?" I

e answered, curling against my ches

nger sharp. "This

smiled. "

sides

luring. It was sabotage. And

on my clothes wit

betraye

l who tr

was suppose

at? A time

s, her eyes glinting w

she really is, Kael

fro

did y

red. "She isn't as i

e bed, grabbing her c

er about the letter she burned. T

slammed in

I said, vo

ring her clothes, not c

," she said sweetly.

hind her, I stared at

tter? W

lo

at if Maera was lying? Manipulating me

cion until I couldn't tel

ded an

d to see

N

her, I was met with a cold blast o

ped. "Lady Elow

on

ent vanished beyond the eastern bo

art dr

on

leave on the ev

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ame of what I had done was

ea

d d

s, rage and confusio

betraye

he betraye

know which hur

thing was

was no long

a tick

tdown had alr

ts. I stared at them, looking for meaning, for clarity-but

rvously. "Should we

once. Double the perimeter.

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one in charge. The

as just a pawn on a boa

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