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Basically, I couldn’t tell hi hoell that was likely to go over "I wish I could, but I can’t I just need soh a forest of unknown deh for so like that?"

Pritkin crossed his arlared at me "Yes"

Chapter Seven

"I didn’t mean you," I said viciously, e y field a fewthe area Special Ops–style to bother answering Just like he hadn’t rab ured it out when he suddenly got cooperative, but I’d been distracted trying to make the too-short emerald T-shirt he’d loaned reat

I pulled it down again, wishing that he was taller or that I had a coat It was chilly, and the thin tee wasn’t doing a lot to keep goose bus

"Is it obvious that I’iven a lot of thought to what I would hen I went to visitunderneath wasn’t on the list

"Ihadn’t noticed," Pritkin tolda couple of points about lanced at me and then looked quickly away "Well"

"Well what?"

"They are a bitjiggly"

"Jiggly?" I looked down in horror I wasn’t jiggly; I was too young to be jiggly I bounced a little on my toes, and they ly!"

"Perhaps it was a bad choice of word"

"You’re daht, it was!"

"I merely meant that they tend to sway a bit when you"

"When I what?"

"Do anything, really"

I sighed and hunched over "Does this help?"

Pritkin didn’t say anything

"Well?" I deeto be easily concealed by--"

"They’re not large!" I did not have large, jiggly boobs, damn it I had nice, pert breasts I’d always been proud of my breasts I just didn’t want to flash the parents, that was all "They’re the perfect size!"

"No argu frouy that would have sounded flirtatious But Pritkin didn’t flirt He did, however, pull off the hoodie he was still wearing and put it around me

It arm from his body and it s an ass didn’t stopit for a second, and the hands that were trying to zip it up, not wanting to let hiet hi--

"Where are we?" he asked softly

I just looked at him silently for ayou back"

"No, you aren’t"

"And how are you planning to stop htened on the soft cotton of the hoodie "By chainingyou to use your brain You said you need weapons--"

"And you have them So hand ’em over!"

A lip quirked "They are tools I aood"

"I’ll take that chance!"

"No, you won’t," he toldcertain "You’re sured out some other way to do this!"

"Perhaps there is no other way"

"Perhaps I’et used to it," he said,me do a double take Because Pritkin didn’t do funny, either "Can you at least give eneral layout?" he added, before I could couess maybe we had, since I auto lo--no That came later There should be a bunch of trees, like a s behind me "Those trees?"

I looked overmade sure I couldn’t see too well Not even Tony’s house, which should be so the horizon were the trees in question I couldn’t tell for sure, since I didn’t re quite that many And becausefor patrols, one of the ones Tony always had h the fog toward us right now Although, if hts under the covered driveway out front, s, since who the hell broke into a vahold anyway? Of course, Jonas and I had, but that would be years fro dead So even if it caused the patrols to be ilant afterward, it shouldn’t affect--

"Cassie?"

"I don’t know," I said, trying to focus on the maybe-trees when my eyes wanted to look for vamps Not that they’d see them That was the problem You never saw themuntil they wanted you to "I should probably ht be somebody else around--"

"Somebody else?" Pritkin frowned "You mean other than the demon army?"