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"I’ll be out in just a " I kept lued to Aiden and was surprised Aaron didn’t deht was back on Aiden

"Tell h clenched teeth I’d spent the past three weeks trying to learn what Holly, Kye and Dorian were keeping from me Now even Aiden had secrets

"It was the tian and my heart sunk "He fed row suspicious I did it to help you with the case--I didn’t expect it to take ahold of my willpower so sudden The addiction was powerful It was like sos needing air or your body needing water--absolute After a single glass, I craved it like nothing else"

My heart thudded against e, each time harder than the last as I listened to his words So to say, but

"Louis had a supply of low level witches on hand for those who liked to feed from the source The witches were there on their own accord, ht, Louis invited over his crew and as a gift he gave each of us a witch of our own We were told we could do whatever anted with the I wanted to do was feed fro towards me as he searched my face for my reaction "And that’s what I did until there wasn’t a drop left," Aiden looked at , except for the thud ofyou this because I love you, uard or find out some other way I was afraid to tell you, but I realize in order to keep you and earn your love, I have to be honest with you This--"

"You killed a witch, drained her, while I was trying to stop Ian fro? For the pastwas noret summoned to Moon to aid in a war for this exact reason You never said anything" I jumped up froht I broke your addiction? You couldn’t have mentioned you killed a witch then? My world has revolved around thisyou were a part of it?" I crossedhands hidden As I watched Aiden it was like staring at a co?

If Holly itness to our argument, she’d be proud My loyalty to my kind was called into question many times over the past month, but love aside; it wasn’t okay a witch died at the hands of my boyfriend, even a dirty witch as they are called I didn’t care that the woic, she was a witch the same as me

"That’s why I didn’t tell you You’ve been so stressed over all of this I didn’t want to upset you more It was a low point in rimaced

"Well you can’t," I hissed "Just leave, please I can’t deal with this right now"

"Gwen?" Aiden walked closer "I’m sorry"

"We have another murderer to capture We’ll talk about this later" I stoht heads turned to observe ht rub off on the "I told you so" looks on their faces With only twenty feet separating ulance at Dorian, I was surprised his face didn’t hold an ounce of arrogance Instead, he looked sorry for me which was al up ht with Aiden, it was that I was full of anger and ready to direct it at Ian Despereaux I wanted a fight, an outlet for ht My love life wasn’t like the fairytalesin on his white horse to save me, nor was there the kind of love that was all sunshine and rainbows Real love was chock-full of problems, and sometimes the prince turned out to be a vaet in contact with Ian Patrick will assign the stakeout points and the vauess they don’t trust us," Holly snorted like it was the silliest thing

"The extra vampires are here to help us with Ian I’ve learned he’s been dabbling in th and speed paired with et to catch--even for us"

Aaron’s ad A lot of leaders wouldn’t admit such a weakness openly Holly rolled her eyes, leaned into Patrick and whispered soo in here so you can concentrate" He slid an ar roo the couches hightailed it out of the room

"You said you’ve never tried to contact Ian, correct?"