Fredrick was covering his face against Sarah's attacks, not that they would cause any more harm or good to what he looked like, it was just instinctual. He felt, rather than saw, Eve move from her hiding place and he could do nothing to stop her. His plan was unraveling before his very eyes and there was nothing he could about it until he got that foul woman off of him!

While Fredrick was blocking Sarah's blows, Eve moved around the two of them towards Michael. It was hard to continue to be angry with Michael, or Sarah, after this nasty turn of events. When Fredrick had approached her a year ago with his gift, she was so angry with Michael and Sarah that he life and ended so abruptly. So she accepted his terms, and his gift, greedily, not truly understanding what she was signing herself up for. Al she knew as that after a year's time she needed to give the gift to Michael and Sarah if they both agreed to it. And that was the catch, they HAD to agree or it couldn't happen.  Thinking about it now, she realized that there was a reason he was pushing getting them both and why Fredrick was acting the way he was with everything having been turned on its ear because of her impatience.

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