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• I couldn’t rush into this the way I wanted to; I had to think through things, remind myself that there were consequences. It was hard to do when all I wanted was Adrenna and the threat that came with her, gone. But some prices were too high, and I needed Brax’s pessimism to remind me of that.
• I sipped my tea, shivering as it heated me up from the inside, the bite of winter not as harsh in the cover of the gardens and Derik’s body brushing against mine.
• “We’ll keep sending out hunting parties; the beast can go with them,” Derik said with finality, and I nodded.