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Memories of that terrible night flashed through my mind before I whipped my head up to him. “What do you mean ‘is that all?’”
He shrugged. “What’s my life to me but a plaything for Rodney?”
My eyebrows crashed down. I stepped in front of him and slapped him on the cheek. The force knocked his head to one side and his eyes widened. I balled my shaking hands into fists at my side and glared up at him. “Don’t you dare throw your life away like that!”
Shade cupped his cheek in one hand and turned to me in amazement mixed with anger. “My life is-”
“Precious to me!” I snapped. Confusion bubbled up on his face. I blushed, but met his yellow gaze with my steady one. “And you’re important to Rodney! He needs you!”
Matron stepped closer to us and eyed me with a look almost as shar
