Demicore

Chapter 41

“Because even in your component parts, you would have stuck around to protect her, therefore leaving yourself weaker and vulnerable to his attacks. And he would have attacked. He had a plan – a good plan – you would have died a slow, painful, heartbroken death in very short order if I had just let you be and I would have been right behind you if I had tried to warn you, so don’t even ask. I do have a sense of self-preservation even if yours seems to mostly be missing.”

Gemini kept looking back and forth between the two. Sonya and Katlin were noting with great interest the conversation that seemed to be going on between Matt and Gunny without words and almost without body movement or facial expressions.

“So that’s why you’re always in everyone’s business. It’s your job,” Matt piped in.

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