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together, okay?”
    “I have to work, but you can come over afterward.”
    “Okay. And Raena?”
    “Yeah?”
    “I love you.”
    I hadn’t heard those words from him since the first time he said them, when we had gone to the Beach Boardwalk to try and hide from Andrei. That was when he told me that he was falling in love with me.
    I smiled. “I love you too, Logan.”

 

Chapter Four
     
    Andrei
     
    We met in secret.
    “You summoned me?”she asked.
    “Yes,” I told her. “I need you to do something for me.”
    She gave me a curious look. “Of course. You know I am here for whatever you need.” She offered me a wicked smile.
    I shot her a withering look. “No need to be so… eager. Now do you want to know what you need to do or not?”
    “Definitely.”
    Glancing around to be sure no one could hear, I began to whisper my plan to her. “Do you understand?”
    She laughed, her voice ringing in the shrouded corridors and forcing me to tell her to be quiet.
    “No one can know of this!” I ordered.
    “Of course, Lord Andrei. It will be as you have said.”
    As she left, disappearing around a bend in the corridor, I wondered if she could accomplish the task I had set for her. I didn’t like my mother’s orders, but they had to be followed, otherwise my life — and possibly others’ lives — would be forfeited.
    ****
    Raena
     
    “You know, Rae, you’ve been acting weird ever since you got back from — where the heck were you, anyway?”
    I was at work. It was my first day back at the bakery since returning from the Shadow Imperium. Unfortunately I was working with Cady. I wasn’t ready to face her and her questions.
    There was no way I could tell her the truth. She would think I was crazy. Or she might be so intrigued by the whole thing she’d try to find Andrei. She might even renew her interest in Logan. I was convinced she had a crush on him. She’d been super mean to me ever since she had found out Logan and I were together.
    Could she feel my panic? I didn’t know why I felt so weird around her now. There was something off about our friendship. “Umm… I’d rather not talk about it,” I hedged.
    She threw down the towel she was wiping the counter with. It missed the edge of the counter and fell to the floor. “Fine. I thought we were friends, but obviously you don’t trust me enough to share your problems.”
    Without even meaning to, she had hit the nail on the head, so to speak. I didn’t trust her. I couldn’t tell her that, though. She would be furious, way more furious than she was now.
    “It’s not that I don’t trust you. I’m just not ready to talk about it.”
    The glare she gave me was enough to make me shrink back from her. I tripped over a mat on the floor and cursed myself for wearing heels to work again. Luckily I didn’t fall.
    “Why aren’t you ready to talk about it?” she whined. Apparently she was going to try that tactic since her anger hadn’t seemed to work against me. It was then I realized Cady was one of the most manipulative people I knew. With everything that had been going on, I didn’t need false friends, but would getting Cady out of my life even help? Or would it make things worse?
    “I just don’t want to right now. You have to understand it was kind of traumatic.” As soon as the words were out of my mouth, I realized I shouldn’t have said them.
    “Traumatic how?” She stepped closer. Great. Now she was even more intrigued.
    “Look, I said I don’t want to talk about it! If and when I’m ever ready to tell you what happened to me, I’ll let you know. For now, will you please just drop it?”
    Her eyes narrowed. “Fine, Raena. I can tell when I’m not wanted.” She disappeared into the back stockroom, leaving the towel exactly where she had left it on the floor.
    Just then the door chimed, signaling a customer’s entrance. I sighed deeply, not wanting to have to deal with anyone. Maybe I should ask to go home early.
    I turned