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“You have no idea what the blood oath can
do. None.”
“Fenrys broke the oath. He found a way.”
“And had Aelin not been there to offer him
another, he would have died.” He let out a
low, joyless laugh. “Perhaps that’s what you
would have preferred.”
She ignored his last comment. “You didn’t
even try.”
“I did,” he snarled. “I fought it with
everything I had. And it was not enough. If
she’d ordered me to slit your throat, I would
have. And if I had found a way to break the
oath, I would have died, and she might very
well have killed you or taken you afterward.
On that beach, my only thought was to get
Maeve to forget about you, to let you go—”
“I don’t care about me! I didn’t care about
me on that beach!”
“Well, I do.” His growled words echoed