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wall, it’s doing some good, so I keep swinging.
    My mind begins to wander. It’s strange to think that I’m going through all this effort to help my enemy. A man who ordered his men to crucify Mason with silver spikes. He would have died if I hadn’t improvised a spell to save him.
    Not just that, but Trent is the same man who tried pressing me into slavery. A man who would have marked me in front of Mason and Sylvia just to assert himself, until Candice and Saffron showed up in time. And then it happened anyway, beneath The Vault, in that moody, torch-lit room.
    I can’t deny it. Despite all his despicable qualities, I’ve been aroused by Trent the whole time, his alpha male dominance, ever since he began showing up in my visions. It’s intoxicating and repulsive at the same time.
    Okay, it’s mostly intoxicating.
    When we found ourselves in that tiny little room, I was glad he stopped me from killing him and caught my hand with the silver spike. I wanted to be handled by him.
    Trying to kill Trent was the right thing to do at the time, while he was still weak, but my heart wasn’t in it. I committed physically, but it was secretly a relief to be overpowered by him.
    There is more to Trent than meets the eye. I sensed it even then. I just didn’t know what I was sensing yet. He was such a scenery-chewing villain at Sylvia’s place. Nobody is really like that. I wanted to know more.
    I was prepared to kill in order to survive, but not just that. I wanted to kill the feelings I was having about him… the feelings I’ve been experiencing ever since he showed up in my visions. I wanted to kill the man who was responsible for evoking those feelings in the first place.
    When I kissed Trent instead, in that dark little room, it felt so natural.
    To find out afterward that Trent worked for Felix was totally unexpected. To find out that Felix held his daughter hostage to secure his loyalty also answered a lot of questions.
    What he tried to do back at Sylvia’s place, pressing me into slavery by using Mason as insurance, was learned behavior. He picked it up from the man who pressed him into service. Trent was just doing to me what had been done to him.
    I can’t help but think that there’s a redeemable man in there, assuming I can break through this impenetrable wall in time.
    I stop for a moment to catch my breath and examine the progress I’ve made.
    Barely a dent.
    “Ms. Aberdeen. I think Daddy fell asleep.”
    Piper is standing behind me. I turn around to see Trent is slumped over, lying in the storm water. He’s lost too much blood from those silver-bullet wounds.
    It’s strange. Trent is even more vulnerable to me now than he was back in that tiny little room, yet I don’t have the slightest interest in killing him anymore.
    I drop the crowbar and go to him instead. He’s enormously heavy, but I manage to prop him back up against the aqueduct wall. I straddle his legs and grab the sides of his head.
    “Trent! Wake up!”
    Nothing.
    Yelling down here probably isn’t the best idea. If people are looking for us, my voice will carry. Still, how is yelling any different than from swinging a crowbar into brick?
    “TRENT! WAKE UP!”
    No reaction.
    I slap him. His eyes open groggily.
    “Was that good for you?” he asks, murmuring.
    “Shut up and stay awake. I can’t have you passing out on me.”
    “Go. Take Piper. Find safety.”
    Trent was my enemy earlier today, but not anymore. This man is my ally now and I need his help. I can’t leave him here.
    “No. You have to get up. Don’t fall asleep on me.”
    “You can’t break the wall. I can’t either. Too weak.”
    “What about your bloodline? All that talk about nobility? Surely a werewolf of your lineage doesn’t give up easily.”
    Trent smiles. “Using my pride against me? Guess I deserve that. I wish it weren’t so, but I’m done.”
    “You’re done when I say you’re done,” I tell him, for all the good it does.
    “Save Piper,”