Chapter 0372

As Jane lunged toward me, I made my own move, reaching into my bodice.

Jane grabbed my left arm, but I used my right hand to wrap the cuff on Jane’s wrist.

I expected her to wince, or gasp, or have some kind of reaction at all. Instead, she just seemed amused. She stopped short, but she also smiled at me. It was a devilish–looking smile, cat-like.

“What’s this?” she asked. “Using my own toys against me?”

“It dampens the strength of my wolf,” I said. “The one you stole.”

“Cute that you think I need the wolf to have the upper hand here.”

“I caught you,” I said. I couldn’t understand how she could be so calm about this. She was acting like she had one something, when I was the one who had trapped her.

Her smile was sharp as a dagger’s edge. “Who caught who exactly, Piper?”

sounded. A cold metal bracelet closed around my own wrist. A handcuff?

handcuffed us together.

a good girl and come with me somewhere a little quieter,” Jane

were more or less

She didn’t realize how much more effort she

and she grabbed mine, and we tossed and turned, each trying to get the upper hand. No one else seemed to notice. Maybe to any outside observer, it seemed

Jane swiftly snatched a steak knife from one of the cutlery settings on the table and

I immediately froze.

growled. “I tire

can’t murder me here,” I said. “They would catch

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that,

that, I wasn’t. After all, she had already escaped the palace guard so many times before. I couldn’t be so naïve as to think she didn’t have a backup plan for

said, and

night sky out the nearby

go get a closer look. A bit of fresh air might do us both

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