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Mary pushed me away impatiently. “Claire, what’s your problem now? Are you calling your brother an imposter? What nonsense is that bird filling your head with?” Before I could even begin to explain, I saw my mother enter while holding Pip. “Jasper, why did you make me bring this bird all the way over here?” Jasper snatched the bird one-handed, clamped its wings shut, and lifted it into the air. Pip began to incessantly repeat itself, “Can’t go! Can’t go! The bad guy is still here!”

Sean had taken it away to make sure I couldn’t contact anyone. The baby kicked wildly inside me. I was shaking from the cold and sweating from the pain. I strained my voice and called out for help, clinging to the smallest scrap of hope. Finally, I heard footsteps outside. “Please, somebody help me!” I screamed. “I’m locked in a basement! I’m about to give birth!” I kept shouting, thinking someone would come. Instead, a triumphant voice answered, “Zoe, how does it feel to lie in a basement in the middle of winter? To me, Sean should’ve done this ages ago to teach you a lesson.”

“Do you want me dead before nightfall?” She smacks my nose, not giving me an opportunity to respond. “I almost fell off your head!” She keeps on smacking my nose. “What if I hadn't held on tight?! What if…” I grab the pillow and smother her. I'm too wired up for this. Her muffled scream reaches my ear as I hold the pillow down for a while till she stops struggling. Tentatively, I raise the pillow up. Pip groans dramatically, her little wings twitching as she flips onto her back. “You,” she pants, pointing a glittering finger at me, “are the stupidest wolf I’ve ever met.”

My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night-dark sea. ¨DAnne McCaffrey,?Dragonsong Oh God, this is bad. This is so bad. I've committed a crime, and now I'm on the run with a jewel thief. The thought kept racing through Piper's mind in an endless loop. Somehow this man had convinced her to help him steal the Cheapside hoard. All of it. How the hell had he done that? He just looked into my eyes, and I went all gooey.

Ember hesitates, touches her shoulder quickly, then vanishes down the path after a brief hug, leaving Piper alone. Piper doesn’t look back when she leaves campus. She walks past the dorms, past the small convenience store at the corner, Her phone is in her hand, screen dark now, but the words from the file are still burned into her head. Wolfbane. Quinn Holdings. At the bus stop, a few students stand scattered under the faded shelter roof. A mother with a toddler. An older man holding a plastic bag of groceries. The bus arrives with a tired hiss of brakes. The doors fold open. Piper climbs in, pays, and moves toward the back without thinking. She takes a window seat and stares straight ahead

As Julian stepped back, Nicholas came forward. “Show me how to break a hold once more,” Nicholas said. “Okay.” I was nervous too. A little bit extra practice wouldn’t hurt. Nicholas locked me in a hold. Julian rolled his eyes. “You just want another reason to put your arms around her.” I blushed a little, but Nicholas didn’t let me go. “Show me, Piper,” he whispered into my ear. So I did. Ten minutes later, we were sneaking through the tunnel, following the long trek to Terry’s mansion.