““I motioned for Slade to pick her up. “Take care of her, will you?” I asked him. Slade looked down at Katie, still clinging to his legs, and then back at me. A stricken look crossed his face. He leaned toward me and whispered, “Um. To be clear, are you asking me to kill her and dump her body?” “What? No! Why on earth would you think that?” Brent cleared his throat. “To a Shadow King, ‘taking care of someone’ has a very different connotation.” “Oh . . . Oh! ” I was going to have to be more careful with my vocabulary choices in the future.””
