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"I’ve been looking for you" He fel into step beside me

"Apparently, you’ve holed yourself up in your dorm, and your friends have advised me males are not al owed in the dor Sil y little Covenant rules shouldn’t apply to me"

I frowned, not sure what to be skeeved out aboutfor s were equal y creepy toHe was the Apol yon--so for the for you to reappear"

Now this was creepy I felt his stare, but I kept my eyes trained ahead "Why?"

Seth easily fel into step beside me "I want to knohat you are"

I froze and I had to look at hi Frankly, he looked like he didn’t want to Caution played across his arresting features as he watched me

"I’m a half-blood"

He arched a blond brow "Wow I had no idea you were a half-blood, Alexandria Color me shocked"

My eyes narrowed on him "Cal me Alex So why did you ask?"

"Yes, I know Everyone cal s you by some boy’s name"

His upper lip curled and frustration fil ed his voice "Anyway, you know that is not what I’ off the Apol yon probably wasn’t the s to do, but my mood was somewhere between crappy and real y crappy I folded irl You’re a boy Does that clear things up for you?"

One corner of his ender lesson I’ve always been confused when it co" He stepped forward, tilting his head to the side "Around May, Lucian requested my presence at Council They found you around the sae"

My instincts screamed for me to take a step back, but I refused "Okay?"

"I don’t believe in coincidences Lucian’s order has to do with you So it begs a very important question"

"Which is?

"What is so iirl whose mother is a dai his movement "Why would Lucian want ht in your dean’s office You would not be the first half or even pure to face down a loved one or a friend in battle What makes you so special?"

Irritation twitched within o and ask him?"

Several short strands escaped the leather thong and fel around his face "I doubt Lucian is being truthful"

"Lucian doesn’t have to be truthful"

"You would know He is your stepfather"

"Lucian is nothing to me What you saw in that office was bizarre He h on power or meth"

"Then you would not be upset if I said he was a poh "Nope"

His lips curved into a half sure out why I was pul ed away froirl--"

My brows rose "You’re not guardingLucian"

"Is that so? Why would Lucian need me as a Guard? He rarely leaves the Council and is always surrounded by several layers of protection A fledging Guard could assist hiood point, but I didn’t have any answers for hi he wouldn’t fol ow, but he did

"So I’l ask you again What are you?"

The first two times he’d asked the question, it had just annoyed me, but the third time poked around inside ht in the factory What had the dai as the words floated to the surface "What are you?" My hand went toover the ultra-smooth skin of the scar

Seth’s eyes narrowed on me "What is it?"

I looked up "You know, you aren’t the first person to ask ed me"

Interest flickered over his face "Maybe I just need to bite you to find out"

My hand dropped to , but it stil weirded me out "Good luck with that"

He s a row of perfect white teeth

His s like Aiden’s, but it was nice "You don’t seem afraid of me"

I took a deep breath "Why should I be?"

Seth shrugged "Everyone is afraid of me Even Lucian--

even daimons are afraid of h they know I aht up toto them

They can’t pass me up"

"Yeah… and I’ what the daiia had said

"Maybe… or lanced around, looking for an escape My stoain "Not real y"

He tucked the loose strands of hair behind his ear "I knew you were here Not you, so to speak But I knew someone--someone different I felt it outside, before I entered the lobby It was like a netic pulI zeroed in on you ier I talked to him "Oh?"

"That has never happened before" He unfolded his arms and reached for me I jumped back Annoyance pul ed his lips down at the corners

There were a multitude of reasons why I didn’t want hi to, I blurted out the first thing that came to mind "I saw your tattoos"