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"What do you want with Soto?"

Secret heat bloomed in Disa's cheeks. She could not answer - it made her feel dirty to wrestle with the question, so she never really had. She wanted him near. For what purpose remained to be seen.

"He is a gardener. And he should work for his supper," she said, unhooking her unblinking stare from Kemal's face and attaching it to an invisible buoy in the middle distance. Soto would garden, and he would act as guinea pig for the poisonous blooms. Disa swallowed hard. The thought of making him watch the pack rip his green from the earth sparked feelings in her that bordered on inappropriate.

"I will get it done. Who are the new ones?" Their scents were already dancing arm in arm with her own, but Disa had been too distracted by the announcement to pay much attention to the Initiates.