Chapter 827

Did Yara tag along with Jace just to make sure she could crash here?

"I want the cream soup silky smooth. Oh, and remove the onions from the food after cooking-I like the taste, but I'm not eating them. And maybe-"I started listing my demands when Yara spun around, raising an eyebrow at me. "Wow. Jace really spoiled you, huh?" she said, shaking her head. "You're so picky."

She wasn't done. "And FYI, I'm not your personal chef. Don't want onions? Pick 'em out yourself." With that, she waltzed into the kitchen.

Clearly, she was hinting at something, so I decided to follow-casually, of course. On the inside? I was dying to sprint. But if she was playing it cool, so would I.

By the time I got to the kitchen, she was already prepping the ingredients, her knife skills surprisingly pro-level.

"Impressive," I said.

"It's called independence," she said, hitting me with a mini lecture. "Just because someone spoils you doesn't mean you can't handle yourself." Okay, point taken.

But even though I wasn't as skilled in the kitchen as she was, I was perfectly capable of being independent.

"Fair enough. Guess I should help out. Wouldn't want to feel guilty eating all this," I said, rolling up my sleeves and starting to rinse the veggies.

fan and running water made for great cover-perfect for sneaking

touched the urn, didn't you? Where's the stuff Hayden

that creepy thing?" she replied with

to barge in any second. Frustrated, I pressed harder. "Yara, I'm

the way Hayden gave it to me. I handed it over untouched. If I'm lying,

it had been, I realized she probably wasn't lying. There was

before he disappeared, and now another one had shown up in

with rings? Couldn't the guy

got you so worked up about the

was a ring in it," I muttered, half annoyed. "He made it feel like some twisted Valentine's Day

in an urn? Only he could come up with something like

what was he trying to do? Was this just some kind of

me see,"

the urn-this one was from Hayden, after his "death" but before he showed up as "Xander." "It's

the urn, so the ring wouldn't have been

can just

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