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I’ve heard.”
Cairn’s fingers tightened around the flint.
“Keep talking, bitch. Let’s see where it gets
you.”
A rasping laugh broke from her. “The
guards talk when you’re gone, you know.
They forget I’m Fae, too. Can hear like you.”
Cairn said nothing.
“At least they agree with me on one front.
You’re spineless. Have to tie up people to hurt
them because it makes you feel like a male.”
Aelin gave a pointed glance between his legs.
“Inadequate in the ways that count.”
A tremor went through him. “Would you
like me to show you how inadequate I am?”
Aelin huffed another laugh, haughty and
cool, and gazed toward the ceiling, toward the
lightening sky. The last she’d see, if she
played this right.
There had always been another, a spare, to