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When dusk settled around us, we headed back to our dor plans to meet up for lunch tomorrow Alone, Caleb stopped me before I headed up the porch steps

"Alex, I know you’ve been going through a lot On top of everything else, school is going to be starting in teeks

You’ve got a lot of stress on you And I’ht at Zarak’s"

School was starting in teeks? Holy crap, I didn’t even realize "I should be the one apologizing" Isuch a bitch"

He laughed and gaveback, his smile faded "You sure you’re okay?"

"Yeah" I watched him start to turn around "Caleb?"

He stopped, waiting

"Mom… did kil those people at Lake Lure She was the one who turned Kain"

"I… I’ up and then fal ing to his sides "She’s not yourthis"

"I know" The s She never would’ve har person "Kain said she’d keep kil ing until she finds me"

He looked like he didn’t knohat to say "Alex, she’d keep kil ing noto sound terrible, but the Sentinels wil find her They’l stop her"

I nodded, toying with the edge of my shirt "It should be me who stops her She’s my mother"

Caleb frowned "It should be anyone but you since she was your mother I--" The frown faded froo after her, would you?"

"No!" I forced a laugh "I’m not crazy"

He continued to stare at me

"Look I wouldn’t even knohere to find her," I told hiht back at me You leave the safety of the Covenant and you’ll find her or she’ll find you

"Why don’t you sneak back with al movies and watch them We can even break into the cafeteria and steal a bunch of food How about that? Sounds like fun, right?"

It kind of did, but… "No I’m real y tired, Caleb The last couple of days have… "

"Sucked?"

"Yeah, you can say that" I backed off then "I’l see you for breakfast? I doubt I’l have practice"

"Okay" He stil looked worried "If you change your mind, you knohere to find me"

I nodded and headed inside the dorm There was another white envelope shoved in the little crack When I saw Lucian’s sprawling handwriting, there was a weird sinking feeling infrom Aiden

"Gods" I opened it up and quickly discarded it without reading it Although, I was col ecting a rather large sum of money This one contained three hundred, and I stashed it with the rest of the cash Once things cal

After changing into a pair of cotton pajaends and brought it back to the bed, thue over and over again, looking for so to happen when I turned eighteen, but the book toldI didn’t already know

Which wasn’t

II kneas staring at the ceiling in led mess of hair Disoriented and stil half asleep, I tried to remember what I’d dreamed

Mom

We’d been at the zoo in my dream It was just like when I was a kid, but I was older and Mo their throats out and laughing

The whole time, I’d just stood by and watched her Never once did I try to stop her

I swung e of the bed and sat there as‘til she finds you I stood, ely weak Was that why Kain had come back here? Had Mom somehoould seek hie?

No It wasn’t possible Kain came back to the Covenant, because he was…

Why had he come back to a place ful of people ready to kil hihter than the rest It was of Aiden androom I’d asked him what he would do if his parents had been turned