It was easy to dismiss Emmy’s arrival as a lone fluke—or a stroke of luck for some of them—but Alex here, too, meant it wasn’t an accident. We were being infiltrated, and Aydin still liked to behave as if we were here of our free will and this house was his domain. Bending down, he gently lifted Alex up, staring into her eyes and wiping away the blood under her nose with his thumb. She hesitated for a moment, but then…she jerked away, stepping back. He held up his hand, staring at the blood dripping off his thumb. Then he looked at her again and slid it over his tongue, licking it off his
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