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“You don’t know what you’re missing.” “You don’t know what you’re eating.” “Mmm.” He ate another one. “Zesty with a hint of what the hell did I just put in my mouth.”
Any concern on the daemon’s part vanished, and he pounded a fist over his heart. “Rue love me.” “You really are a sad thing, aren’t you?” Ruger rolled out his shoulders. “Barely comprehensible.” The buzzing turned into a full-on roar as Clay slung an arm around my shoulders to restrain me. “Don’t do it.” Clay held on tight and forced my head onto his shoulder. “Don’t give him what he wants.” As far as I could tell, what he wanted was to die horribly.
“It’s not too late to run.” I locked my arms around his calf. “I would hold on, so it would be awkward, but you could try, and I would fully support that.” Then I sat on his foot, wrapping my legs around his ankles. “The thing is, I love you. So, it’s kind of your fault we’re in this situation. I want the best for you, and I’m not sure that’s me, but I’m also pretty sure I would viciously murder anyone who tried to take you, so…” “It’s my fault that your affection manifests as veiled murder threats?” “What veil?” I grew my fingertips into talons I raked down his bare chest. “There was no
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I crossed my arms. “I’m still evil.” “Evil as a marshmallow,” Colby mumbled
“Before Asa, I wasn’t exactly in touch with my feelings.” “That’s not true. You beat them into submission on the regular.” He was quick to defend me. “Locked ’em in chokeholds then slit their throats after they passed out. All very humane.” The look I cut him would have cowed a lesser man, but Clay was not one to moo.
“I won’t hurt her.” I kicked and clawed at him. “I’ll kill her.” “Rue cute.” The daemon squeezed me in a hug. “Don’t be jelly.” “I’m not cute,” I snarled. “I’m about to commit murder.”
There comes a point where you must stop looking back on the person you were and judging the person you are by their standards. You can’t be two people at once. You’re either New You or Old You. There is no in between.
