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But all of that wasas I kept a firm leash on it

But it was the hunger that dah she were the prey I needed to devour in every possible way

Get the fuck over yourself

I blinked and brought the room back into focus

“Oh good, you’re here,” Olivia said, rising from the dark blue loveseat that sat opposite Avianna’s couch

“I’ over to the s area that filled a corner of the room

I liked that Avianna had decorated her rooms—scratch that—this room in blues Every shade covered the space, from the softest powder blue, to cobalt and turquoise It had always reminded me of a peacock As for her actual bedchamberwell, that was beyond the farthest door, and beyond e

I intended to keep it that way

“Where would you like it, Avi?” Olivia asked, a hopeful note in her voice

Of course, she wasn’t going to speak Whatever they’d done to her in the weeks of her captivity had rendered her silent I clenched the tray as wrath streae what had happened to her

Avi didn’t answer Olivia, her eyes htly

“Right,” Olivia said with a sigh, giving me a wide berth as she passed by, not that I could blahtfully earned well, a prick “You could have asked Prudence to bring it up, you know,” she said softly

“Figured you could use some time with Ransom,” I answered It would have been easier to send Avi’s talele meal since she’d returned

“Thanks for that” Olivia offeredme alone with Avianna and the cursed silence that had come to be her trademark in the last couple of weeks

“Want me to wait outside?” I put the tray on the coffee table in front of her Maybe if it was close enough, she’d eat a little more

Avianna cocked her head and stared atdown my frame in obvious appraisal Then her brow furrowed and her lips pursed