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“The same as it’s always been.”

“And what’s that?” Jill demanded as she watched his silver eyes flash brighter.

“Revenge.”

CHAPTER 27

“Revenge,” Jill repeated back, looking lost in thought while he sat there as a wave of emotion rushed over him that he couldn’t quite make out before it disappeared.

“I never lied to you, Angel,” Logan said as he watched her.

“No, you didn’t, did you?” Jill murmured to herself as angry silver eyes met his. “But then again, you never told me why you were doing this either.”

“And I’m not going to,” Logan said because the last thing that he wanted to talk to her about was Elizabeth.

“You don’t think that I have a right to know why you ruined my life?” Jill asked, shaking her head in disbelief.

“And how exactly did I ruin your life?” Logan drawled.

“Are you serious?” Jill demanded as a surge of anger washed over him.

“Deadly,” he said, watching as she slowly nodded. “You would have ended up in this situation with or without me.”

“And what situation would that be exactly? Because I’m pretty sure that I wouldn’t have lost everything and ended up in a Sentinel cell, cut off from my family and trapped here if it wasn’t for you,” Jill snapped as that wave of anger intensified.

“No, you probably wouldn’t have,” Logan murmured in agreement. “But the outcome would have remained the same. Your father would have turned you and-”

“That was never going to happen,” she bit out, taking him by surprise.

“Your father never would have sat back and watched you die,” Logan said because that was the one thing that he’d been counting on.

“It wasn’t his choice to make,” Jill said as he watched a muscle in her delicate jaw clench.

“And what choice would you have made?” Logan asked as he remembered the moment that she realized she was about to die and-

She’d closed her eyes and slowly exhaled instead of begging him to save her.

“What every little girl dreams of.”

“And what’s that?” Logan asked dryly.

“To fall in love, get married, have children, and grow old before dying in my bed, all while pretending that this world doesn’t exist,” Jill said, making his lips twitch.

“You’d really give up a chance to live forever?” Logan drawled.

“In a heartbeat,” she said with absolutely no hesitation.

“Tell me about this dream man that you planned on giving up immortality for,” Logan said mockingly as he leaned back in his chair while he considered her.

“He would be devastatingly handsome, of course,” Jill said in a teasing tone.

“Of course,” Logan murmured before adding, “And obscenely rich.”

“It wouldn’t matter to me,” she said, shaking her head.

“I imagine it wouldn’t with the trust fund that your father set up for you,” Logan pointed out.

“Are you talking about the large trust fund that my father opened in my name when I turned sixteen and have never touched so much as a penny of? Is that the trust fund that you’re referring to?” Jill asked with a pitying smile. “Your stalking really needs work.”

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