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Holding up a scrawny arm to ward off more hits, he’d been saved.
Someone else had been there that last night—someone who had taught him how to fight back.
Sometimes, when he closed his eyes at night, Răzvan could still see the desperation in Sebastian’s eyes as he’d tried to flee right behind them, then the haunting the realization that he wouldn’t be able to make it out.

The Jackal! ❤️😭

Răzvan didn’t respond, merely studied her in that uncanny, unblinking way of his—like he was trying to decipher whether she was lying to him .
But she never outright lied .
Evading was her specialty, and if she absolutely had to, she offered half- truths

He waited for the pity to shine in her eyes. Even Calavera, who had seen plenty of horrors in her short life, had looked at him with such sadness when she had found out the truth .
But he didn’t get pity from Winter. She actually looked impressed. Impressed —like she had been told he held a secret weapon.

He touched the top of her head affectionately before stepping past her
“By all means,” she said dryly, waving at him as she closed and locked the door, “come right on in.”
In all the years he’d known her, she still spoke to him as though he were actually capable of responding out loud.
He appreciated the effort.

How long had it been now since he’d last seen Calavera ?
He hadn’t been there the day she’d left Nix. The way Aidra had told it, Nix hadn’t responded well .
But that wasn’t his business.
And he did his best to mind his own.