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whitening more each passing second.             
                  “As much as I want to hate you Lee, I don't.  But I am not sure why I should make a promise to succumb to something so selfish.”
                  He swallowed hard making his neck constrict just above where his gray button down collar was open, “Because you won't have a choice.”
                  He did know something. He knew what Borgon was going to do next, but he would never say.  I feared for one long painful flash of the future that I could lose Lee. I never once wanted him truly harmed.  I just wished him to come back from the darkside.
                  “I know what your thinking.  I can't go back from all this.  Believe it or not, I do all of this for you alone, Anastacia.  It's always been about you.”  His jaw twitched.  Maze busied herself with putting my book back in the drawer, then closed herself in the bathroom.  We both sat in silence hearing the door click.
                  “Then why put me in this situation?”
                  “Because I can't get out of this one.  I only have enough time if I leave right now to return and not give the edge that I've been here.  He knows where my loyalty truly lies and he's about to use it against me.”
                  I panicked and scooted closer forgetting myself and grabbing his shirt where the buttons were left open, “If you think for one minute Dyer Lee about sacrificing yourself for anyone or anything, I will kill you personally before the knife deals the final blow.  I am not worth being a martyr over.”
                  The bathroom door opened and a scared squeal emerged before it shut tight again.
                  “You're wrong,” he stood still letting me hold on to him and looking down from his towering height, “you are worth more than anything in this world.”
                  “Wake up,” I shook him but not very well considering he was part Hunter.  “You need to leave that piece of crap and come back.  Stop listening to his lies.”
                  “If I hadn't, you'd not be where you are now and you know it.”  His tone was serious enough I believed him one hundred percent even if I didn't admit it.
                  “Regardless.  I want you back.”
                  His eyes closed causing me to let go of his shirt.  I stumbled and staggered my words all at the same time, “I mean I want you safe.  Safe.  I just want you safe.”
                  “I can't do that.”  He started moving towards the door where he couldn't leave from.  “It's late.  I need to go.” 
                  In haste and out of pure fear, I hugged him.  He never brought his hands up, but I felt his body breathe into mine.  It was all I could give.  I couldn't understand why he was being so stubborn but I knew from all that has happened to me in the last year or so that nothing made complete sense.  At least not when so many secrets led your life and the others you cared about held them in out of caring for me.  It was hard to stay angry with them.
                  I couldn’t just walk him out of my bedroom and I couldn’t scale him down the wall spidy style.  And I wasn’t a Vampire who could...fly.
                  "How did you get in?"
                  He smirked, shining his perfectly straight teeth.  His amusement at my expense for getting him out undecided was humorous to him and seen as a opportunity to see me sweat.
                  I’d just have to sneak him out the door and hope for the best. 
                  Hope wasn’t on my side today!
                  Maze snuck out of the bathroom she'd been hiding in to give us "privacy” then left first saying she would talk really loud to whoever she