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Iz shook her head. >
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She was a brat,Iz thought, the word still painful after all these years.She did the right thing, but that was sheer luck. She didn’t really know what she was doing. And even now, it turns out Istilldon’t know what I’m doing.
She had the feeling Logan would argue with her about that, though, and she just wanted to keep the story going.
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Dimitri hated his daughter for what she did. He thought she just didn’t understand. She was an ungrateful brat, getting in over her head.
Just like she would get in over her head later, and take on a case that would end with her stuck in a cage. Just because she wasso surethat she knew what she was doing.
As much as she wanted to tell Logan the truth, though, she couldn’t make herself say that part.
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Logan put his paw up against the bars, and Iz caved to the comfort he was offering her. She rested her claws lightly against him.
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Despite herself, she smiled. >
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And then she failed at being a marshal. She made a stupid decision to come into the woods at night, and then she made another stupid decision to make her captor angry, and now she’s getting you killed, Logan.
But again, Logan was too nice to acknowledge that. Iz knew he would deny it.
She changed the subject instead. > she said, with forced brightness. >
It was the least subtle conversational switch ever, and she could tell that Logan was considering pressing forward with talking about her past, but again, his innate kindness won out. He wasn’t going to force her into anything she wasn’t ready for.
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Raw Kobe beef did sound good to her dragon, but right now, her mind was focused on her human sense of taste.
> She trailed off when she felt how quiet his end of their bond had gotten. >