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CHAPTER 22

Lupus is extorting her.

The heart of Darien almost stopped. “What, who—”

She studied the blanket, her fingers twisting the thin fabric.

“Yours or mine?”

Larissa looked up at him, her eyes revealing confusion. “Do you think it was one of my grays or one of your \sreds?”

She didn’t answer, which made him suspicious. “Why would anyone blackmail her?” Darien considered Lelandi’s nightmares, her reluctance to discuss her past with him. It fit. When he opened his mouth to question Larissa, she had shut her eyes again. “Larissa?”

She didn’t respond and appeared to be sleeping. He growled under his breath, swore he would not tell anyone

To give her any more pain medication if she needed it, and took his seat again.

Two painfully long hours later, Larissa opened her eyes, and immediately Darien launched in with his questioning, determined to get the truth out of her this time. “What about the man who accosted you outside of Hastings?”

“Gunman?”

Being evasive on purpose? Or confused again? “No,
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