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“He would fucking do this,” Hawke countered, his gaze narrowing on Dagon as he flipped his dagger end over end “Because he did He took Avianna”

“Hawke,” Alek muttered, but there was zero threat in his tone If it ca his sister back, he would have unleashed the monster we all kneelled just beneath Hawke’s skin and smiled

But there was nowhere to unleash Hawke No direction we could find No clues left for us to mull over It was as if the twins had simply disappeared with the princess

“That fact isn’t up for debate,” Hawke continued “And the sooner you can all get the fuck over yourselves and realize your boys aren’t quite up on that pedestal you keep pointing at, the sooner we can find Avi”

“You’re a di—” Dagon started

“He’s right,” Zachariah interrupted, silencing his fellow hunter with nothing lance

“Zach—” Dagon argued

“He’s Right” Zachariah shook his head slowly “As much as we all want to believe that Samuel would never betray us like this, we’ve found no evidence to that”

“He would do it,” Talon said slowly, raking his hand through his blond hair in frustration “As much as none of us want to say it, he would do it to protect Saint There’s nothing he wouldn’t do for his brother We’ve lived through what Saet that it was Saint’s brush with bloodo into stasis?”

A gruh the Hunters

We’d spent aswhatever evidence—which was none—we could find from the abduction scene and the twins’ bedrooms I understood it—none of the as heinous as kidnapping the princess

But reality was often a bitch

“Twentyat his cell phone “Are you sure you’re ready to do this, ?”

“So forertips on the table, sarcasuish in his eyes “We don’t have another choice We’ve searched all of vampire territory?”

Hawke nodded “Every fucking inch”

“You’ve ht have?” Alek asked Zachariah, who sat to the left of Lachlan

“There’s no one left fro with an eon, Talon, and Ajax have all called whoever is left of their lineage and no one had any answers for us”

The other three hunters nodded, and I felt no burning onthe truth