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Chapter 189
Perrin
It hadn’t sat well, what Lo had said. Jaz had held too much from me. We were supposed to be talking more, to make this all work. And I hear that she’s sharing things about my Beta with Lo that she hasn’t bothered telling me?
I texted her, asking her to join me for a walk. Part of me didn’t want her being in the pack house tonight, a gut feeling that I couldn’t quite explain. Walking gave us direction, momentum of some kind that we just weren’t getting outside of the bedroom.
She agreed to meet me when she got off work. I had switched out patrol so that I could get to the bottom of this. While nothing typically came before my sense of duty and running patrol, this thing with Jaz was stuck in my head and throwing all of my concentration.
“Hey,&rd
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Lo He stared blankly after I finished. I wasn’t sure if he was still breathing. “Ethan?” Perrin prodded gently, approaching him slowly. Ethan blinked. “You think I was poisoned?” I sighed, suddenly lighter, as if the weight of telling him was off of my shoulders. “That’s a rather direct way of putting it, but yes.” “And you don’t know by what?” “No.” “Or by whom?” “Nope.” “And your research hasn’t turned anything up?” “Not entirely.”
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EthanI didn’t care how bad it smelled. I took a strong swig of the whiskey, if only to have something to do with my hands. That, and to keep them from shaking.It tasted horrible, burning as it went down. I thought of Kira. How could she stand this stuff?I shuddered, draining the glass as if the smell of the alcohol would calm my mind.“Ethan?”Justin’s voice was gentle and tentative. I wasn’t sure how long I had been quiet. Lo and he had both sat still, across from me in the giant living room of Justin’s suite. The sun had set long ago, but as if not to want to disturb me, no lamps had been turned on. Instead, my gaze had followed out over the vast city of the Aperture pack, list from below, while
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