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I press my lips to her ear. “Look what I found.”

She parts her legs and whines.

“Lia…”

She fists my shirt in her hands. “What?”

“Get. Rid. Of. Your. Brother.”

“Oh.”

I pull my hand out and step back, leaning against the mansion. She staggers a little; her cheeks are all rosy.

“Bailey!” she calls. “Bailey, you need to go now.”

I snicker and finish my beer. I give it five minutes.

“Clear the house!” I shout.

In ten minutes, my house is empty of everyone but my old lady and my pack.

I slowly strip out of my shirt.

“Lia.”

“Yes, Zaden?”

“Get on your fucking knees.”

Chapter forty-four

Lia

I stand at thewindow and stare at the Raines mansion. It’s the only place in the whole mansion where I can see my old home. It’s dark and still.

No one has been there in weeks.

Is that what it looked like when I lived there? Was I just a dark shadow living in a quiet house? Unheard, unseen.

“No.”

I jolt, my hands covering the arms that slide around my waist.

“No?”

“No, we always saw you. No, that’s not you anymore. No, we’re never letting you go,” Ianto growls.

“I feel like I need to say goodbye.”

I hear a meow and turn, finding the tiny kitten. I swoop down and pick him up.

“Would you want us to build a pyre?”

I wrinkle my nose at Ianto’s suggestion. “I’d settle for writing a letter.”

I reach into my pocket and pull it out, passing it to him.

He unfolds it and reads it.

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