Jaxon’s POVMy office smelled like coffee. The strong, bitter kind of black coffee.It was the only thing keeping me upright at this point.Eli sat across from me on the couch, his legs dangling because they still didn’t reach the floor, both his hands wrapped around a wide plastic cup filled with something outrageously purple. Nina had called it a smoothie. I suspected it was mostly fruit, sugar, and a quiet bribe.It wasn’t working.“So,” Eli said, staring at my desk like it personally offended him, “why do wolves hate rogues so much?”I dropped my pen.It clattered softly against the wood, rolling until it bumped against a stack of reports I’d been trying, and failing, to finish for the past hour.I closed my eyes briefly.“Eli,” I said carefully, opening them again, “we talked about this.”He leaned forward, elbows on his knees. “You said I could ask questions.”“I said you could ask some questions.”He tilted his head. “What’s the difference?”I stared at him.He stared back, ent
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