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Lilly, Jack added, “Is there an escape for my brother if he does this? You understand the wheres and whens better than anyone.”
    “There is no coming back – not to this when,” Lilly said, shaking her head. “Maybe not to any when, not ever again.”
    “Did you hear what she said?” Jack said, turning on his younger brother. “I won’t let you take Potter’s place.”
    “I don’t need anyone to stand in for me,” I said, hooking a piece of red thread from between my teeth with my little finger. “I ain’t no coward.”
    “It’s not about who has the biggest set of balls,” Lilly said, glaring at me. “It’s who serves more purpose here – in this when.”
     
    “Well if you speak to most of the people who know me, they’d tell you I served no fucking purpose at all, so I guess it’s me who should go to the guillotine,” I said, keeping one eye on my lookalike.
    “I want to do this,” Nik said, looking back at his brother.
    “But why?” Jack demanded. “You’re my brother.”
    “And Kiera is our sister,” Nik reminded him. “We’ve already had two lifetimes together, it’s time you shared one with Kiera.”
    “What makes you so sure that I want to?” Jack growled at him.
    “Because you haven’t led her to Luke Bishop like you were meant to,” Nik said. “Jack, apart from me, you’ve never helped anyone in your life. She must mean something to you as you’re facing the guillotine because of her.”
    Jack lowered his head, then said without looking at his brother, “I can’t choose between my brother and sister.”
    “Nobody is asking you to choose,” Nik said. “It’s my choice. I want to do this for you and Kiera, Jack. I was lucky enough to have spent time with Kiera in that zoo, and I wish I had known then that she was my sister. But you know what? In a way I’m glad I didn’t know back in that world. If I’d known, I might only have helped her because of that fact. But in my heart I know I helped Kiera because she was worth helping – she was worth saving, Jack. And she’s worth saving now. But this time , it’s your chance to save her.”
    I watched silently as Jack raised his head and looked at his brother.  Even though Nik now looked identical to me, Jack slowly drew one bony thumb down the side of his brother’s face.
    “Thank you, Nikolaou,” Jack whispered.
    Feeling as if I should say something too, after all, the wolf was saving my arse, I said, “Yeah, thanks Niko-whatever-your-name-is.”
    “I’m not doing it for you,” Nik barked back at me.
    “Sure,” I said, biting my tongue so I wouldn’t make some cocky comeback.
    From deep within the cellblock, the silence was suddenly broken by the rattle of keys.
    “They’re coming for you,” Nik said, pushing his brother towards the open cell door. “Go!”
    Lilly crossed the cell, came up behind me, and swiped away the chains which bound me. They clattered to the floor. “We’ve got to get moving,” she breathed in my ear.
    I headed towards the cell door, then looked back. “No offence or anything, and I don’t want to piss all over your plan,” I said, “but I get the whole creepy lookalike thing with me, the wolves are gonna think they are executing me when really it is you, but what about Jack? Aren’t they gonna wonder where he’s disappeared to?”
    Without saying anything, Nik bent down and covered his hands and forearms in the flesh and fur that he had cast aside when removing his wolf skin. With his hands and arms bright red with flesh and blood, he smeared some across his chin. Then, standing and looking at me, he said, “Knowing that death was near, and unable to control your hatred for the wolves, you killed and then ate your cellmate, Jack Seth, as your last supper.”
    “Nice,” I said, furrowing my brow. “You sure got it all figured out.”
    “There is nothing more cunning than a wolf,” Nik said, staring back at me.
    “That’s for sure,” I said, turning my back on