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control.
He was never allowed to be himself again."
    "But she's not like that with Daniel.
He's in control most of the time."
    "Which is why I love him
like a brother, Zoë. This is my point. Something about him changed
her. She's working with us. She's working with him. She's no longer trying to
control things, and I think it's because of him. Although I can't seem
to make the others see this. They're all still distrustful of
her."
    There was something in his face, a
hint in his expression, that told me there was information he
wasn't giving me. So me, being the bitch I am, guessed. "She's in
love with him."
    "Zoë, First Borns don't love
their—"
    "No….I can see it. TC, I know when
you're lying, 'cause you suck at it with me." I pulled my hand from
his. "Your sister's in love with her host."
    He looked down at me. It
was so different seeing color in his eyes. Before he took the
Throne, they were white. Solid white. "She'd been watching you. I
don't know whose body she had or if she was still in James Wynne's.
She never said. Her plan was to get the Grimoire from Maureen, but you and
Dags intercepted her and got it first. And after it was all over
with, and you and Dags were in the hospital, she followed you. She
saw Daniel."
    "And…she saw what my Horror did to
him."
    "Yes. So she saved him when she
could."
    "I'm guessing she's not that crazy
about his feelings for me." I wasn't fooling myself, nor was I
being a bitch. I was aware Daniel still loved me. Even though my
own heart had found someone else.
    I loved Daniel, too.
    "Zoë." He arched an eyebrow at me. "I
brought you here because this is where your mind was. Where you
intended to come. I told you about Inanna so you'd understand. Now
you know a bit more of our history—more than even Nona knows. And
now…" He moved forward and put his hands on my upper arms. "What in
the hell happened at the Society House?"
    I wasn't ready to switch subjects yet!
Oh! Damn him. I needed to know more about how Inanna felt. And if
she was the jealous type.
    "Zoë?"
    Give him an evil glare, I did! A cold
breeze blew strands of hair across my face, and I reached up to
move them. My fingers were like ice and I was pretty sure I had a
red nose. "You know everything there is to know about me,
right?"
    "That's a loaded question. Right up
there with 'does this make me look fat?'"
    I punched him in the arm. "Stop it.
I'm serious. You know I was raped here, right?"
    His expression became very solemn.
"Yes."
    "And you know a young man died here
because of it?"
    "Yes."
    "And that technically…I died,
too."
    "That's how your mother's spell was
broken."
    After a few breaths, I told him about
what happened at the hospital in Montreal. And about the picture I
saw, as well as my father's mark. Then I told him about the picture
Nick had and the murders in Atlanta before I left.
    His expression never changed. "So this
guy wasn't a Power when he raped you."
    "No. According to my
mother."
    "And she's sure?"
    "Yeah, she's pretty damn sure." I
licked my lips. "You hinted once that this incident wasn't an
accident."
    "It wasn't."
    His tone was so confident, I narrowed
my eyes at him. "I assumed when I saw the mark on the face of the
two sketches that my father created the event to break the spell.
But my mother confessed to doing it herself." I swallowed bile at
the thought. "She sent this man to do it, but said Barry wasn't
supposed to die and I wasn't supposed to be raped."
    I studied his face, documented every
minute detail of his reaction to the news.
    Damn ass-hat had a stone face.
Nada.
    "TC?"
    "Nona's lying, Zoë. But I don't know
why. There isn't any gain in saying something like that except to
make you mad."
    Lying? Why in the hell would she lie
like that? Especially about something so…
    "Hey." He put a hand to the side of my
face. "It's okay. Whatever the reason Nona has, it's got to be a
good one."
    "When you came…" I tried to remember
everything that happened after they shot me with the