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“Wrong. Try again.”
I was confused. What else could have made them work together? James wasn’t anything but their plaything, right? He had no real power, even if the North believed they could put him back on the throne.
“Oh, I love watching your mind work so hard to figure it all out,” Sirrush taunted.
I shot him a deadly look before turning my eyes back to James. He stared back at me with no emotion, his dark green eyes as inscrutable as he was.
“You can’t figure it out, can you?” Sirrush mocked.
I looked back at my brother, wondering to myself, Can you? Did Sirrush really know everything, as he liked to make people believe?
“Why don’t you just tell me?” I asked.
Sirrush laughed at that, and even Blaze found it amusing, smiling slightly.
“But where’s the fun in that?”
