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.

us

come with me somewhere a little quieter,” Jane said.

more or less evenly matched in strength. I might have even had a

She didn’t realize how much more effort

grabbed her arm 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 like we were

swiftly snatched a steak knife from one of the cutlery

I immediately froze.

this foolishness,” she growled. “I tire of these

I said. “They would

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that, are you?”

I wasn’t. After all, she had already escaped the palace guard so many times before. I couldn’t be so

and it

the night

“Maybe we should go get a closer look. A

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