A Pack Of Love and Hate

d you plenty in my thought

crazy as it so

’d come, h

still had t

one thing? This isn’t a game to me. I want to save your life, and the reas

obered

illin from LA. I haven’t refrigerated it, but it’s st

ak. “If it’s from the same batch you slippe

e, yet I regretted having a hand in his death. “You t

ter bottle and took a swig. “Unless she was c

would th

s on th

up saying. “Once we test the Sillin out ours

discu

n-free ways—Liam dropped me off in front of the apartmen

Liam said, “Matt will be over in t

row

tart building mu

need Matt

ck of the seat I’d just vacated.

ke myself

ut in case you’ve forgotten, we

they might

e not running around in the woods alone. Come to think of it, Lucas should move ba

. Besides, what sort of message would me needing a babysitter send out?” I didn’t even bother br

’s t

ened his mouth, I tossed in, “I’ll

g moment before saying, “Oka

d him a smile that he didn’t reci

ith my budding independence. Or was my arrangem

t, and it hadn’t been to celebrate them. I’d gone to secure an alliance with Julian because my cousin

ich had overturned my world: the name of the man who’d murdered my father . . .

the open doors. The high-ceilinged atrium lined with French windows on one end and dark, wainscoted walls on the other was filled w

ssive face staring back at me from within the gilt frame. He would’ve loved that fra

ening one of the French windows overlooking the labyrinthian h

ondolences to the mourners. From the scrunched brows and

re to convince them;

ffy brown eyes growing wide in surprise. Apparently, she hadn’t put much s

the world coming to?” I

away from me

ng me. Tha

p in a smile. “Don

ng around here. Everything’s always shiftin

ebrow. “Did you

t,” I said, using her own words

oze as her gaze locked on a place over my sho

us. Both wore black—where Liam had donned a button-dow

coming?” Sarah asked

one slashed by a white scar. “Afraid o