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Asher openly gawked "I know a lot of languages, lady, but I’ve never heard one like that before"

Claire smiled down at him "You’re not the only one with secrets"

"Aave hi "Nope"

CHAPTER THIRTY

It didn’t take any time at all to rise up a floor, and we deposited ourselves in one of the large roo out to sea and barricaded the door We’d have warning if anyone entered, but we’d also be trapped inside

I wasn’t surprised to see an unfamiliar dead body in the bathroootten a hand over her mouth to muffle her scream in time

A man was in his very nice and separate-from-the-bathtub shower He was slu open, jaw dropped wide

"Shhhhhhhhh," Claire told the girl, but without any weird accent this time

"It’s like this?" Asher asked one insane and jumped overboard You don’t even know half of what it’s like" I stepped back out of the room, and they followed me "We have to pool resources, and quickly All our cards on the table For real" And to encourage full disclosure--"I’ot a master key to all the staterooht

Rory crossed his ar this" He waggled the knife

Claire went next "I’o I can convince people to do what I want the to listen My voice travels better underwater"

Rory’s eyes narrowed "I’ve fought sirens in video gaood"

Claire looked affronted "I hope then that we are at least hard to kill"

"Depends on the difficulty setting"

"Oh, I can be very diffi--" Claire began

"I’m just a man who loves a siren," Hal interrupted both of therined

Emily kneas her turn after Hal "I have a radio" She held it up for us to see Halsed

"I’m a shapeshifter And I’ve never met one of you before" He bowed to Claire

"And I’ve never ally from her perch

"You only think you haven’t," he said, with a puckish grin

Noas not the time for my boyfriend to char out? And what the f--" I started to curse, saw E on in that room?"

I saw the muscles in Asher’s jaw clench as he realized that whatever he wanted to tell me, he’d have to share with everyone at once He inhaled deeply before he began "I went downstairs to talk to Liz, like I told you--looking like Nathaniel," he explained for the others, who hadn’t been there "She was feverish, babbling things About sea , except for present coured out she wasn’t Nathaniel’s wife and Thoenetic disorder that Nathaniel promised her a cure for, after they came on this cruise with hi for pills the other night "Then what?"

"I was concentrating solike him After that he knehat I was He said if I ith hi"

"And just like that, you followed hi I wasn’t the only one whom peacefulon, Edie I thought I could stop hiht--he is behind all of this"

"So what is he doing here with everyone on the boat?" Claire asked

Asher inhaled deeply again, to buy hih And the people he’d been working for killed his daughter to punish him"

I took me a moment, then I filled in between the lines Way to not mention vampires or blood substitutes, honey--and that hat Nathaniel’d meant when he threatened a child for a child I put a protective hand over my stomach I’d need to find a way to tell Asher about that, privately

"So this is his revenge," I said Asher looked surprised, then nodded