❛ Are they dead? ❛

_{as much as he wanted to stay there were dead he couldn’t. no, he wasn’t going to lie to her, but the blood on his hands, and clothing revealed much. far too much to his liking, “unfortunately,” he said, “they will survive.” of course, if he wanted them dead, they would have been, but all the same… he was trying to control himself. “— but that could be changed.”}