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Narrowing his eyes, Jai shoved the book back at her, lowering his voice to a growl “Read it, Ari Read it or I will spend the next feeeks reading it out loud to you every minute of every day”
“Why?”
He frowned “Why what?”
“Why do you care if I know this stuff?”
“Because…” he shook his head, as if searching for the right words “It’s… it’s difficult not knoho you are or where you belong In the end, you have to accept whatever you find out about yourself and carve out a place where you do belong But you can’t discover who you are, Ari Johnson, if you don’t accept what you are” He tapped the top of the book “This is a good place to start” He threw her a cocky smile, rare and as deliciously war in the shade “Knowledge is power”
Feeling things Ari couldn’t even naaze up at him a little du foolish for staring at hi the book close to her chest “You’re right I’ll read it”
“Good” He nodded stiffly, back in his no nonsense guardian o keep the brothers company” He stopped at the doorith a little frown “Do you have any pineapple juice?”
“Pineapple juice?”
He shrugged “They want pineapple juice”
Ari snorted at the weird request “No I have OJ”
Jai shook his head “I’ll just conjure some”
Marveling over hoeird her life was now, Ari sighed “You do that”
Chapter 12
Rip me out and maybe I’ll be different
The Brotherhood was strange They stood clustered together, ten Moroccan men from the city of Meknès, dusty and rumpled in their plain shirts and slacks So hooded robes and sinister arded Jai with a mixture of awe and fear, and they refused to even look at Ari Even when she was the one detailing the plan The plan that so could not go wrong After everyone agreed to the plan (well, the Brothers agreed once Jai reiterated it), including Charlie, Ari left the Brotherhood downstairs and went up to her bedroom to -winded, pleading voicemail that would beat the hell out of her pride, but to exorcise Nick, she was up for it It had occurred to her in all of this that poor Nick probably didn’t have a crush on her at all It was the creepy-ass jinn that possessed him as infatuated with her
An entire year and a half of Nick’s life had been stolen