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'

about Wayne's smooth, polished act, I couldn't help but say, "That whole 'don't judge a book by

me you think he's doing all this because of

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

but then his hand

wrong?" I asked,

his head faintly. "It's nothing. Just feel like I'm about to

faint streak of red dripping through his

into a nosebleed?" I asked, staring at his pale face, the hollows under his eyes. "Jace, what's really going

from his pocket, pressing it to his nose while tilting his

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dry, and I've been slacking

had coughed up

go see a doctor, okay? Don't try to tough it out," I said, my

dry air," he insisted, waving it off like

feel tight.

rang.

tissue to his nose, he grabbed the phone with his free

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