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Have you ever gone a whole day without committing murder?” “Has anyone who’s spent their whole day with you?” I muttered. Ian clucked his tongue. “You’ll come to love me before this is over, promise.
“No means no,” I snapped, furious at his continued attempts to damn Vlad. “Go soul-scrounge somewhere else!” The demon’s eyes flashed red again. “Scrounge?” “That was rude,” Ian said, shooting an accusing look at me. “Not right for her to insult you simply because of your species. Would she criticize a lion because it eats gazelles? No, because it’s a bloody lion and eating gazelles is what they do, just like making soul contracts are what demons do.”
‘though she be but little, she is fierce,’” I quoted with an answering, if much wearier, smile.
topic. I am stronger than what I feel, and more than that, it is my pain. Don’t try to protect me from it.”
He met my gaze with a frankness that continued to throw me because it was so unusual coming from him. “There’s more to all of us. Yet most times, we still only see what we expect to see.”
Okay, so I might be dealing with some mild post-traumatic stress after what had happened tonight. Admitting that didn’t mean I was weak; it meant that I was strong enough to own my true feelings, even my traumatized ones. This new issue might end up causing me to stumble or fall a few times, but it wouldn’t break me. And even if it did, I wouldn’t stay broken forever. I’d heal.
“Don’t do me any favors, you fucking poor excuse for a father and a man!” Mircea shouted. Mencheres’s mouth quirked. “Children. They say the sweetest things, do they not?”
“You didn’t fail me,” he said in a gruff voice. “You fought hard. That’s all any of us can do, and sometimes, things don’t turn out the way we want them to. That doesn’t mean you have anything to feel bad about. It’s just life.”
