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"Then it’s not the bonding you’re worried about?"

"No I actually can’t wait for that part, but there’s this feeling The only other tiht before I met you" I paused "Do you think we should be worried about the Tribunal?" I asked foron it Our punish that wouldn’t happen to us

"No," he said patiently "People will make their statements Then there will be a question and answer session--that’s going to be the hardest part Then, we’ll get to say ant Biting you was a serious offense, but we’ve already passed the Seven’s test, and Sebastian and Donovan themselves pardoned us This is just a formality It’d be different if that hadn’t happened yet We’d need to prepare defenses and arguo our way now Just tell everyone what happened, and they’ll get it It’s going to be fine Trustonvery well The Tribunal wasn’t until Monday night, so I still had soet it done But if Dastien wasn’t too worried, then I shouldn’t be either

He started down the dirt road "It’s going to be okay Whatever happens, we’ll deal with it together"

"Right" I squeezed his hand, but I wasn’t sure I believed that I’d never been lucky enough to have things go s to be as easy as Dastien thought

Chapter Three

The drive fro The baseline of Andrew Bayer’s "Bullet Catch" rattled the speakers, and I grinned I freaking loved this track The dirty beats made my heart race every ti

He was s I love this one, too

It’s kind of perfect, right?

He cranked the voluh the curves of a back road, pushing his fancy-ass car to its limits

This This hy I ith him He’d totally played this track for me--for us--because he knew it’d reens and browns of the forest blurred past As we neared caates to St Ailbe’s were just ahead I heldfor Dastien to slon, but he blew straight past

I gripped the door handle You missed it

Did I?

He sounded a littleWhere are we going?

I want a little tiht Is that okay?