“Oh, really?” he challenges. “Then ask me.” My mind stumbles, like I’m riding too fast downhill and the speed is getting away from me. “Ask you...?” “Ask me to kill him for you.” I blanch, feeling the blood drain from my face. That was the very last thing I expected him to say. Everything about Slade right now is fierce, unfettered, and completely fae, despite those parts of him hidden from view. “You say the word, and it’s done. You hear me?” His hand lifts, and he snaps his fingers so loud that I flinch. “That quick, Auren. I’d end him in a breath, in a room full of people who’d run
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