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With his permission, she ducked through the window and brushed off her black jeans, tossing her black hair back out of her eyes.

“How long did you know Travis’s plan?” Brennan asked.

Dom pressed her lips together and nodded, like she expected an interrogation. “He told me after I unbound him from the forest. That’s when I left town.”

“Why did you come back?”

Dom shrugged. “I thought being somewhere else would make me feel better. But I felt just as bad,andI was letting him win. Like, I was already screwed, but I didn’t have to let him screw everyone else over,too.” Her nails tapped nervous circles against her thighs. “I thought I could stop him, but I only saved one cache before it was too late.”

They said the enemy of your enemy is your friend. But Dom had been his friend before, too. That wasn’t nothing.

Brennan crossed to his dresser and dug out two small items he’d tucked away, then stopped in front of Dom.

“Tell me if I’m overstepping, but I thought you might want these,” Brennan said.

His hands, outstretched toward Dom in offering, held a photo of a smiling Evelyn that Dom had left in her apartment, and the pink scrunchie from the scene of the crash.

He half expected Dom to scoff or snarl. He didn’t expect her eyes to fill with tears or her hands to tremble as she reached for them both.

But she stopped short of taking them from him, her hands hovering over his.

“It’s my fault all this is happening,” she said. Her hands withdrew further. “I messed up, and people got hurt. And more peoplewillget hurt. I freed Travis. I turned people. Ikilled Evelyn.”

“But you’re trying to fix it, right?” Brennan asked. “Can’t that be enough?”

Dom was stock-still except for a quiver in her lips. Then, slowly, she took the photo and the scrunchie from his hands, holding them like they were precious.

“It’s a start,” Dom said. She stared at the photo for a long moment, then her eyes cut back to Brennan. “But I don’t know what happens next.”

Brennan offered a grin. “About that… Do you happen to know anything about thralls, vampire blood, or grand romantic gestures?”

23HOW YOU GET THE BOY

BRENNAN’S JOURNAL

Operation Get Your Shit Together

Shower

Find Dom

Get Cole back

Figure out how to free Sunny & Nellie

Figure out how to stop Travis

Figure out how to stop vampires from going feral at vampire ball

BRENNAN’S PHONE

You have created a new group with Tony Esposito, Mari Vasquez, and you.

Brennan

Hey all!

I’m sure you’re wondering why I gathered you all here.