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As Tohr stepped out into the hall, he was crazed, incoherent, on the verge of a violent breakdown Jesus Christ, he had to get out of here, get away from her And to think he&039;d called her insane?

He was a fucking madman at the ht in front of hiel hauled back and cocked hi galaxies of them

As he hit the concrete wall behind hirabbed the front of his shirt and sla his molars

When his vision finally cleared, that pierced face was nothing short of a deer that required a gravedigger&039;s cleanup

"You&039;re an asshole," Lassiter barked "A total fucking asshole"

Tohr tilted to the side and spit out blood "Was it Maury or Ellen who taught you to judge character"

A long finger was shoved into his face "Listen toto say this only once"

"Wouldn&039;t you rather hit et more out of it - "

Lassiter threw hiain "Shut up And listen to me You win"

"Excuse ot what you wanted Wellsie&039;s condemned for eternity - "

"What the - "

The third slam cut him off "It&039;s over Done" He pointed to the closed door of Autumn&039;s room "You just killed your chance when you ripped her apart"

Tohr lost it, his e "You don&039;t knohat the fuck you&039;re talking about - you don&039;t know shit! You haven&039;t had a clue about any of this, not me, not her - not your job! What the fuck have you done here for the last year? Nothing! You&039;ve been sitting on your ass watching talk shohile oddamn waste of ti brilliant, how about this" Lassiter released him and stepped back "I quit"

"You can&039;t quit - "

Lassiter flashed his el turned away and stalked down the hall

"You&039;re fucking quitting! That&039;s great - fucking great! Talk about staying true to someone&039;s character, you selfish son of a bitch!"

All he got was another bird flipped over the shoulder

With a vicious curse, Tohr uy, but then stopped hi the concrete so hard, he felt his knuckles break And what do you know, the pounding pain in the back of his hand wasn&039;t even close to the agony in his chest

He was absolutely raw, inside and out

Taking off in the opposite direction froel, he found hi lot With no clue what he was doing or where he was going, he sent it flying wide on its hinges, andup the incline, passing the empty spaces that were demarcated with yellow paint

He went all the way to the back, to the farthest wall, and sat his ass down on the cold, hard asphalt, his shoulders against the damp concrete

As he breathed hard, he felt like he was in the godda&039;s effect on his body: Even though he&039;d been out like a light fro as if he&039;d put them in a vise, his cock still hard, his joints sore as if he had strained even in thehis teeth, he sat alone and stared straight ahead, into the darkness

This was the only safe place for him at the moment

Probably for a while

When Layla heard shouting, she poked her head out of the gy - and i a set-to, and that was not anything she had to get involved with

She had her own proble, she had stayed down in the clinic for the night, knowing she had spent some time up at the Sanctuary recently, so there was no reason to worry about her cycle More to the point, however, she had nowhere else to go Qhuinn and John were no doubt talking to the king and the Prih she would be summoned to learn of her fate

Faced with possible exile - or worse, death for aiding a traitor - she had spent the hours upon hours upon hours walking around the edges of the gy the bleachers and the benches, and the entrances into the PT suite, and the doors out into the corridor And then going back by theain

Her anxiety was such that it spooled out tension like a wool spinner, the twisted threads reaching up to encircle her throat and winding down to constrict her gut

She thought relentlessly about Xcor and his second lieutenant She had been used by them both - but especially the latter Xcor hadn&039;t wanted to partake of her vein He had fought it - and when she had overridden hiret in his eyes because he had known exactly what position he was putting her in The other soldier had had no such compulsion

Indeed, she bla Mayhap she would be reincarnated as a ghost and could haunt hi she would be put to death And if she was not, as she going to do? Surely they would strip her of her duties herein as well as her Chosen status Where would she go? She had nothing of her own, nothing that had not been provided at the behest of the king or the Pri on her loop, she confronted yet again the e days, and wondered what purpose she would serve in the future -

The door opened at the far end, and she stopped

All four of the, the Pri her spine, she crossed the gyot close enough, she curtsied down to the floor and did not wait to be addressed Court manners were the least of her problems

"My lord I am prepared to accept all responsibility - "

"Rise, Chosen" A hand appeared in front of her face "Rise and be at ease"

As she gasped and looked up, the king&039;s sentle, and he didn&039;t wait for her to respond Bending to her, he gathered her palm in his and helped her up frolanced at the Primale, his eyes seemed impossibly kind

She just shook her head and addressed Wrath "My lord, I fed your enemy - "

"Did you knoho he was at the time?"

"No, but - "

"Did you believe that you were helping a fallen soldier?"

"Well, yes, but - "

"Have you sought hiain?"

"Absolutely not, but - "

"Did you in fact tell John and Qhuinn where he hen you were leaving town last night"

"Yes, but - "

"Enough with the buts then" The king s her cheek lightly in spite of his blindness "You&039;ve got a big heart, and they knew it They took advantage of your trust, and used you"