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“You may go, human, and take your beast with you. Safe across our borders and safe for...” He pretended to contemplate, but she knew he had planned what he would say before he opened his mouth. “Ten weeks and ten days and ten hours, you may have, for your audacity and your honor.”

Jan frowned. Something wasn’t right. “Ten weeks and ten days...and ten hours,” she repeated slowly.

“You wish it shorter, human?”

She had thought—She didn’t know much, but everything she had read told her that seven was the magical number. But as odd as that seemed, that wasn’t what...

They said she could go and take her beast. That meant Martin. But...

“And Ty,” she said. “I fought to bring Tyler home. Those were our terms.”