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He stops, scanning the length of me. “Are you hurt?”
I hesitate, but there’s no point in worrying him. “No.” I frown at the blood and dirt coating his body. “Are you?”
He softens. “No.”
“Liar.” I gesture at the shallow cut on his ribs.
He brushes me off. “It’s nothing.”
I want to argue. To tell him the very idea of him being harmed terrifies me. But I don’t want that to be true anymore.
“Why did you bring me here?” I ask.
“Uziah threatened you,” he says. “He told me he won’t stop until…”
He doesn’t finish, but we both know what he means.
“He can’t get to me in Tartarus,” I say, still not sure why he brought us all the way out here.
He shakes his head. “The portal wasn’t safe. He would have laid a trap.”
“How do you know?”
“Because that’s what I would have done.”
I study him, remembering what Uziah claimed. About being his father. “Do you believe him? About being your… you know.”
His eyes flash with a pain I’ve seen before. The pain of his past. “It’s possible. He knew things no one else could have.”
“About the blood oath?”
He nods. The pain in his gaze becomes a plea. But I haven’t forgotten how we ended up here.
“That’s something you’ll have to deal with alone,” I say. “I need to get Kendall and find somewhere safe for us?—”
“I am safe for you,” he insists, eyes flashing.
“You don’t get it,” I snap. “You’re the one I need safety from.”
He stares at me like I’ve just slapped him. Then he blinks, and the anguish I see stabs at me, tempting to crumble the walls I’ve built around my heart in the last hour.
“I will never let anything happen to you.”
“Why?” I shoot back.
“What?”
“Why bother offering me a vow like that? You don’t want to mate me. And I don’t want to mate you.”
Lie.
But I’ll make it true.
I have to.
“Why bother continuing this charade? Let me go, Legion. It’s over.”
“I can’t do that.”
