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“Ah.” A smirk curved my lips. “I guess I have. Tell me something…” I turned to her fully. “Are he and I the same?”
She clenched her jaw. “No.”
“Oh, don’t be so kind to him.”
“I’m not,” she purred, tilting her head back to rest on the concrete wall, unaffected by the way moss was growing between the cracks. “He’s so much worse.”
A deep chuckle erupted from my gut as I stood to my full height and started walking backward. “You say that like I’m not sent from Hades himself.” I tapped on the single light bulb. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.
“Maybe.” She smiled, and it tilted me off-balance at how confident she was, even in the eye of an enemy. “But what does that tell you about him, if not even you scare me?”
She was brave, I’d give her that, but if she wanted to play games, all right then. We’d play.
I punched the light bulb, and everything went black.