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Soft For The Predators The Square At Sunrise
Chapter 37: The Square at Sunrise"Silas!"I screamed it at the dead phone. I screamed it again, and then Jayden had me against his chest with both arms locked around me, and I fought him, because I did not know what else to do, and he let me. He let me hit him. He did not let go."Breathe," he said into my hair. "Amanda. Breathe. He is alive. You felt him. You said it yourself.""He was telling me something. He was telling me not to—""I know.""It is not the pages he wants. It is what?" My voice cracked in half. "What is it?""We will find out." His hands were shaking. I had never felt them shake before. "But not here. We need the box, and we need a plan, and we have maybe forty minutes."Kingsley had dragged himself up by the windowsill, still grey, with blood drying down his neck. "I am coming," he said."You are not," Marcus said."I let them walk out of this room. I will walk back into the square if I have to crawl."Nobody argued. I think we all understood that it was not a thi
Soft For The Predators The Eleventh Thread
Chapter 36: The Eleventh Thread"Silas," I said.It came out as a whisper. I had my hand pressed flat to my breastbone, as if I could hold the thread still, and under my palm I felt it pull again, thin and cold and very far away. Not a child's warm heartbeat like the ten upstairs. This one was frightened. It was moving."Amanda?" Jayden had my elbow. "What is it?""The eleventh. It goes to the clinic." I could hear my own voice climbing. "It is Silas. Something is wrong with my brother."Jayden had his phone out before I finished. He dialed Kingsley, and put it on speaker, and we all listened to it ring. Four times. Six. Ten. The silence between the rings felt like a hand closing over my mouth."He would answer," Marcus said quietly. "He has never once let a call go.""Then we go." I turned for the door."Keeper." The old woman's cane came down on the boards between me and the hall, not hard, but very clearly. "You cannot.""My brother—""I know. Hear me." Her eyes held mine. They wer
Soft For The Predators Terms Of The Heart
Chapter 35: Terms of the HearthI did not answer at once. The old woman had asked me to think, and I did, standing on my father's porch with the rain dripping off the roof and ten small heartbeats pulling at my chest.If I said no, the council would break down the door or wait for the sun. Either way, Moses would walk into that hearing with a broken trial in his hand. If I said yes, I was opening the house to the people who had kept a book of stolen children.I looked at Jayden. He did not tell me what to do. He only held my eyes, and gave the smallest nod, the kind that said, Whatever you choose, I am here.Then I remembered a line from my father's letter. Say it aloud, and mean it, and the hearth will answer."You may cross," I said, and my voice carried farther than I expected, down the wet steps and into the road. "But on my terms. This is a house of children. Under this roof, every guest is a guest. No one raises a hand. No one raises a seal. No one speaks a name from the registe
Soft For The Predators The Hearth Answers
Chapter 34: The Hearth AnswersMarcus was the first to move. He went down on one knee in front of the little girl, slowly, the way you would approach a bird, and held out his open hand."May I look?"She considered him with grave dark eyes. Then she pushed back her sleeve and offered up her wrist, as calmly as if she were showing him a scraped knee.The mark sat just above the small bone, no bigger than a coin. A gold flame with a thin red line through its heart, and it pulsed very softly, in time with the glow of the pages in the box behind me. Marcus did not touch it. He only looked, and I watched his face go through three things in a row, wonder and grief and a kind of fierce, aching tenderness."It is not the fated mark," he said at last. "Not the one you and Jayden carry. It looks the same, because the old law has only one way of writing a bond. But it is not a mate's. It is a thread." He lifted his eyes to me. "When a keeper is named, every child held by the register takes the m
Soft For The Predators What My Father Hid
Chapter 33: What My Father Hid"Send them away," I read again, and then I lowered the page.The room was very quiet. Mama Eze stood in the doorway with her broom, and Marcus was near the window with his hands loose at his sides, and Jayden was so close that I could feel his breath on my hair. He had not asked what the letter said. He had only stood there, steady, with his eyes on the iron box."I can step outside," he said, and the words cost him something. "If that is what he wants. I will not read it. I will not listen at the door."It would have been so easy to say yes. Part of me wanted to. I was tired in a way I had no name for, and my father had been a frightened man who loved too hard and chose too badly, and I did not know whether I could bear one more thing he had left behind. If I sent them out, then whatever this was, it would be mine alone. It would be a small, closed box, and I would be the only one hurt by it.But I had made a rule on a cracked terrace, and I had broken
Soft For The Predators The Good Home
Chapter 32: The Good HomeWe left Silas with Kingsley. That was the only thing we argued about, and it took less than ten seconds."Someone has to stay with your mother," Kingsley said. "I will not leave this room until the sun is up. The boy stays with me.""I want to come," Silas said, his chin up."I know," I said, and kissed his forehead hard. "That is why I need you here. You are the only one she will trust if she wakes up frightened."He did not like it. But he nodded, and I walked away from him down the corridor without looking back, because if I had looked back, I would not have gone.Marcus drove. He took the bridge at a speed that made Jayden grip the door handle, and the rain came across the road in grey sheets, so thick that the streetlights looked like candles under water. Nobody spoke. I sat in the back with the flask on my knee and the brass key in my fist, and I watched the city turn from glass towers to brick, to low roofs and corner shops with their shutters down, to
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