‘What?’ I heard myself say. ‘What?’ Halbert said in the same moment. ‘Oh, and yes, I did the same thing,’ she bit out, breathing heavily as she stepped away from him and wiped her palm on her robes. ‘Spread my legs for a man with human blood on his hands. So are you going to spit on me, now? Are any of you?’ Rosalind. Allie. My thoughts wouldn’t move swift enough, nimble enough, to wrap themselves around whatever the hell was happening. ‘Here’s what you don’t understand,’ she added, turning away from Halbert and his sagging jaw, her voice loud and clear in the breathless silence. ‘What none of
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