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have to deal with it anymore.”
    She watched as he turned on his heel and left the room. That had almost been an actual conversation. A very sick and twisted conversation, but one nonetheless.
    Her phone buzzed.
    Where are you? Everything OK? N.
    Hot tears brimmed over her eyelids. She’d agreed to the Ceremony. Which meant…
    No more Noah.

Chapter Seven
    You and Me, Dude
     
     
    “ It has been a few days now,” Cyrus sighed down the other end of the phone line.
    Noah winced at the reproach in his sigh. “It’s not like I’m not trying, Cyrus, but if I push her now, I might not get her back.”
    “ If you do not push her now, we might not get her back.”
    Noah exhaled heavily. It was Friday tomorrow and still Eden was avoiding him like the plague. In any other hunt it wouldn’t have been a problem. He’d have gone in aggressive and had a hold of his prey in record time. But with Eden he felt he needed to tread carefully. She was going through a traumatic time right now, and pushing her to talk to him when she was so clearly afraid, might ruin their friendship forever.
    “ You are becoming too involved, Noah,” Cyrus softened, his understanding worse than the recrimination.
    You’re one to talk. “I’m not too involved. I’m just trying to be careful.”
    “ No. You are concerned about losing her trust. Well that is something that will probably occur, so it is best you resolve yourself to that outcome. Right now, I am concerned about losing her . If she has broken away from you, Noah, it can only mean she has decided to go ahead with the Awakening Ceremony. We cannot let that happen. Do what you must to get through to her.”
    Noah groaned inwardly as he flopped back on his bed. Cyrus was right. He’d effed this one up. Got too close. Too attached. “Of course, Princeps. I’ll fix this.”
    “ Good. Alain would like to speak with you.”
    He brightened a little. He hadn’t spoken with his parents in a few weeks except for a couple of text messages from his mom.
    “ Noah,” his father’s heavily accented voice murmured in his ear and his whole body relaxed.
    “ Hey, dad. How are you? How’s mom?”
    “ Good. Missing you. We did not think this assignment would take so long.”
    “ I know. I had to take my time. Build trust.”
    The line was quiet for a moment and Noah could hear his father moving, a door closing in the background. Finally Alain sighed, sounding as weary as Noah felt. “Cyrus has been keeping me updated on your progress.”
    Noah didn’t like his tone. That tone had always signalled a lecture. A lecture that somehow managed to make him feel seventeen instead of seventy. “Yeah?”
    “ I was never keen on this, Noah. I wanted what was best for Cyrus, what would make him happy, but I’ve never been sure of this creature, this girl-”
    Noah flinched at the disdain in Alain’s voice and unexpectedly found his hands curling into angry fists.
    “ -but for Cyrus I would agree to almost anything. He’s a good man. But now my son is caught up in this girl’s life; acting like a friend, tip-toeing around her feelings. I’m worried you grow too attached to something that you shouldn’t.”
    His cheeks felt flush with anger. ‘something’? “Dad, don’t you trust me?”
    “ Of course, but you are still young, Noah. Still easily-”
    “ No. Think on Valeria. Cyrus was right. He’s seen this before. I can back up his claims now, OK. I’m not duped by a clever soul eater. Eden is a messed up, confused kid who deserves a chance to get the hell out of a world she should never have been born to.”
    His father remained silent for a while. “She’s still one of them, Noah.”
    “ Not if I can help it.”
    Noah heard the familiar sound of his father growling unhappily. “Fine,” he snapped.
    “ Does mom feel this way too?” Noah squeezed his eyes shut, pressing his fingers into the sockets as if to stem an imaginary headache. Ankh didn’t get headaches. But they got pissed