Chapter 767

Jace didn't push it. He just nodded and said, "I walk you back."

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I opened my mouth to refuse again, but he added, "It's not safe for you to walk alone this late."

Not safe? In a monastery? Yeah, right.

I was about to roll my eyes when he added, "What if there are bugs or snakes?"

That shut me up immediately. I hated those creepy things.

I had to give it to him-after ten years together, he still knew how to shut me up when it counted.

As we walked, his comment sparked something I told him about the snake Lena got in the parcel and spilled who sent it.

Jace's expression iced over, his eyes narrowing "People like that are completely unhinged.

"Exactly. That's why I'm so worried about Lena."

"He wouldn't come at you directly. But your people? Yeah, they'd be targets," Jace murmured.

Wel

both knew exactly who 'he'

act, I couldn't help but say, "That whole 'don't judge a book by its cover'

laugh. "Don't tell me you think

truth to that," Jace admitted, voice soft. "But it's more than that. He's always been

slightly, but then his hand shot

wrong?" I asked, instantly on

faintly. "It's nothing. Just feel

then I saw it-a faint streak of red

nosebleed?" I asked, staring at his pale face, the hollows under his eyes.

tissue from his pocket, pressing it to his nose while tilting his head back.

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just dry, and I've been slacking on

had coughed up

a doctor, okay? Don't

insisted, waving it

him like this, made my throat feel

rang.

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