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?”

cold metal bracelet

us

and come with me somewhere a little quieter,” Jane

strength, we were more or less evenly matched in strength. I might have even had a slight advantage due to surprise.

had grown accustomed to the strength of my wolf. She didn’t realize how much more effort she would have to put in

trying to get the upper hand. No one else seemed to notice. Maybe to any outside observer, it seemed like we were doing another silly dance.

knife from one of the cutlery settings on the table and wedged it

I immediately froze.

foolishness,” she growled. “I tire of these

I said. “They would catch you

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that, are you?”

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

do anything stupid,” I said, and it

night sky out the nearby floor to ceiling

tonight,” she said. “Maybe we should go get a closer look.

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