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Tension weighed down on me, and I almost groaned aloud. I still had enough to worry about, and now

this?

But wait. How had Jurrek Bane spoken to my sister, swayed her heart to the point she had the audacity to sit my brother and me down to confess such feelings?

“I should have taken her with me to the demon realm,” my brother Hades murmured from across me, and I turned to him. “But this is Mearez. She would never say such things unless she believed them to be true. What do you think?”

I lowered my gaze, sighing.

“Jurrek Bane is… nice. An Ashmere warrior. I think he fought in the second wave alongside Zephyrine. When I’ve looked into his eyes, all his worry, all his longing, was for Ash Pack’s safety.”

“Nothing for my sister?”