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Prologue

The Flight

The blood of the Blessed splattered walls and chairs and pooled on the floor like soraphic novel It was a massacre

Stellan?!

Eden pushed at Noah, who kept a tight grip, tugging her towards the doorway as the chocolate-eyed warrior and theher They were joined by a pretty woman with auburn hair

“No!” Eden tried to wrench away from them “Stellan!” she shrieked

She caught sight of her brother through the fight, his head swinging around to find her as he heard her cry out his name

A warrior with a swishing blonde ponytail, a girl perhaps a year older than she, took advantage of Stellan's distraction

“Eden!” he yelled, turning away froh the miniature war

“Eden, no!” Noah tried to pull her back

“Stellan!” She reached out for hi as the sword came towards the back of his head “Stellan, noooo!” she screamed

But it was too late

The sword cut through hi with the top half of his head

Agony ripped through her chest and her knees buckled beneath her She felt arht of her brother's body disappeared froed from the room…

Eden blinked back tears, the burning, choking feeling in her throat e of her brother's death had played over and over in her head every day since it had happened

She kept wishing she could pause and rewind the replay, do so different, not shout out his naan?She wondered despairingly Her cousin was the lowest piece of scum on the earth and yet somehow, out of everyone, he was the one who had survived unscathed And she kneas unscathed He wouldn't care that Ryan and Celine and Stellan were dead He didn't have it in him to care

Eden frowned; it was paranoia, she kneas, but that big puff of cloud outside herhad Teagan's sneer Eden growled under her breath at it and ignored Valeria clearing her throat from the leather couch across from her on Cyrus' private jet

“Is everything alright, Eden? Need the drug?”

She shook her head without looking at the warrior as taking ti soul eaters to escort Eden across seas The drug she was referring to was the one that was keeping Eden's hunger abated Her hunger for souls

Being a soul eater sucked ass

Eden exhaled heavily and leaned her head back on the cushy leather recliner, blocking out the tasty tendrils of soul wafting towards her from all directions She was stuck on a plane with not one delicious Ankh soul but three They couldn't get to Edinburgh fast enough

If so Noah Valois would lead to the death of her parents and the discovery of an unbelievable heritage, Eden would have snarled at theiven theen next to me?'

But lo and behold… here she was

Opening her eyes to little slits Eden snuck a peek at Noah who sat across froitation, ignoring the way her heart thu face and elegantly masculine hands – hands that could kill a man in under two seconds, she re that da to charan

Re her that he hadIn Cold Bloodon her (a really inappropriate book considering the ordeal she was going through), and pretending to like the , was not the way to soften her up

“I lied before,” she huffed, drawing Noah's pale violet eyes up froes of his book to her face His eyebrow quirked up, clearly surprised she had deigned to speak to him

“About what?”

Eden ignored the little shiver that tickled down her spine at the sound of his deep rich voice He had the perfect narrator's voice Melodic and unusual, and utterly captivating She hated him for it

“About the book It sucked”