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When your hair stops dripping orange drops, I get a little closer and check the origin of the bleeding. It's a cut between the hair, and I'm not sure if it was done by a blow, but there is a large elevation below the slit that opened.

"When did you give up trying to kill me? "I ask in such a casual way that it even seems like I don't care about that at all.

In fact, it's still a little indigestible to realize that Dean has been using me in a worse way than I thought, and that Hunter could have been my killer if he were truly mean. It would have been to say the least ironic to die at the hands of the same person who saved my life.

"Since they told me what I needed to do. "He answers. "I abandoned the contract, but no one charged me for it. I stayed here, hidden on my own, until I fell into a trap. I was grateful for you saving me, Suzy, and I will always be. But even after we had an agreement, you proved to be very hostile. In my head you were always the person Saltuk made believe he c