Chapter 0715

I open my mouth to say more, to explain everything, but Jackson wraps a gentle hand around my arm.

"They already know about what Blythe said about Juniper," Jackson whispers to me. I turn my face up to him in surprise. "I told them when you were in the shower."

"We have a call out to mom," Rafe says quietly, looking at me curiously. "But you don't have...like any idea about how he knew her? Just that she said something to him about...you?"

I shrug, shaking my head. "I don't know anything else," I say. "I was trying to get out of there as fast as I could. God, I should have -"

"Don't, Ari," Jesse says, looking at me sadly with his kind brown eyes. "There's no way you could have known."

I let my eyes drop to the floor. "Two," I whisper, exhausted. "Two boys dead in one day."

"It's horrible," Rafe agrees, nodding. "But if it helps...you saved a great deal more."

I look up at him, not understanding.

on them. If you hadn't used your magic and taken down those helicopters, they'd have continued

around the thickness in my throat, considering that. And even though it does nothing to dull how much I miss Tony, how sorry I am about

him,

sighs and stands. "We have

my feet, clearly hating to do

a hand to me. "Let's go bother Daphne.

the corners of my mouth as I slip my hand into my cousin's and give it a

cat sitting on her shoulder, but there's no time to think about it as she falls forward, wrapping me in a hug the moment I step

whispers, holding me tight. "I heard what happened -

hating myself for it just a little bit. But hating

got her dry," Jesse murmurs, his voice

the little cat peering

Jesse's," Daphne says,

Ineq

her arms open. Jesse steps immediately into them, wrapping her up in a hug, pulling her tight against him. I can't help but smile a little to see

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